Nick Herbert: Quotes about the world

Nick Herbert is American physicist. Explore interesting quotes on world.

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“So minuscule is the scale of quantum events compared to the actions of everyday life that it's a wonder humans ever found out about the quantum world at all.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 8, "And Then A Miracle Occurs": The Quantum Measurement Problem, p. 150

“A universe that displays local phenomena but upon a non-local reality is the only sort of world consistent with known facts and Bell's proof.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 12, Bell's Interconnectedness Theorem, p. 230

“Although mathematics originates in the human mind, its remarkable effectiveness in explaining the world does not extend to the mind itself. Psychology has proved unusually resistant to the mathematization that works so well in physics.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 1, The Quest For Reality, p. 2

“The entire visible universe, what Bishop Berkley called "the mighty frame of the world," rests ultimately on a strange quantum kind of being no more substantial than a promise.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 10, Quantum Realities: Four More, p. 195

“Physicists continue to debate whether Bell's theorem is airtight or not. However, the real question is not whether Bell can prove beyond doubt that reality is non-local, but whether the world is in fact no-local.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 13, The Future Of Quantum Reality, p. 238

“Strictly speaking, there are no "measurements" in the world, only correlations.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 9, Four Quantum Realities, p. 174

“No local reality can explain the type of world we live in.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 13, The Future Of Quantum Reality, p. 245

“The quantum world is not made up of objects.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 9, Four Quantum Realities, p. 162

“The quantum world is objective but objectless.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 9, Four Quantum Realities, p. 162

“Quantum physics emerged from the Stone Age with an embarrassment of riches - three quantum theories, each claiming to explain the world. As it turned out, all three were right.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 3, Quantum Theory takes Charge, p. 42

“Most everywhere, most of the time, the world dwells in an unmeasured state.”

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 6, Meet The Champ: Quantum Theory Itself, p. 94