“When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.” ThinkingWorldLooksNaturalExampleObjectsPlantDumbComplexityQuantumMechanicNatural WorldQuantum MechanicsSmartphonesPhotosynthesis Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states - the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality" - history as we had known or inferred it - was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea.” DifferentRealMatterStatesBigsRealityUniverseViewsKnownPathTakenSeaObjectsCloudsPoint Of ViewForestsAlternativesPerceiveShoreDecayQuantumFiniteBangsEmbeddedTrajectoryEntirety Author:Robert Charles Wilson
“Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.” NeedsWellsReasonSeemsExistenceObjectsAspectEverydayPhysicsReason WhyQuantumMechanicQuantum Mechanics Author:Alain Aspect
“Objects obey quantum laws- they spread in possibility following the equation discovered by Erwin Schodinger- but the equation is not codified within the objects. Likewise, appropriate non-linear equations govern the dynamical response of bodies that have gone through the conditioning of quantum memory, although this memory is not recorded in them. Whereas classical memory is recorded in objects like a tape, quantum memory is truly the analog of what the ancients call Akashic memory, memory written in Akasha, Emptiness- nowhere.” BodyLawMemoriesGoneWrittenPossibilityObjectsUnityResponseFollowingSpreadEmptinessAppropriateTapeQuantumEquationsConditioningLinearAnalogLinear Equations Author:Amit Goswami
“Quantum physics presents a new and exciting worldview that challenges old concepts, such as deterministic trajectories of motion and causal continuity. If initial conditions do not forever determine an object's motion, if instead, every time we observe, there is a new beginning, then the world is creative at the base level.” IfsWorldChallengesLevelsForeverCreativeConditionsObjectsConceptsExcitingDeterminePhysicsQuantumNew BeginningsInitialsContinuityWorldviewQuantum PhysicsTrajectory Book:The Self-Aware Universe Source: The Self-Aware Universe
“For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through relationships and processes. They are not inherent in electrons or photons or quanta any more than they are inherent in soil or trees or people. So my critique of reductionistic science is a critique that I have inherited from my scientific training. But it has been deepened by my experiences as an ecologist, in seeing the ecological destruction taking place today.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensIdeasTodayProcessSeeingTreeExampleObjectsTrainingDestructionPropertyFixedSoilQuantumInherentCritiqueEcologicalElectronsPhotons Author:Vandana Shiva