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“Holding onto misery only brings more misery into focus. All possibilities exist. But the mind has only room for one thing at a time.”
― Painted Oxen
― Painted Oxen
“Playing in the field of mathematics is like playing in the aether, and sometimes you get taken through all manner of twists and turns, you may as well be walking in parallel to the rest of the world, or in another dimension in space.”
― My Life as a Magician
― My Life as a Magician
“Quantum physics teaches us that we can simultaneously exist in many places, under certain conditions.”
― Quantum Computing Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence
― Quantum Computing Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence
“Quantum Mechanics doesn't deserve the connotation of spookiness in the sense of some ineffable mystery that it is beyond the human mind to comprehend. Quantum Mechanics is amazing; it is novel, profound, mind-stretching & a very different view of reality from what we’re used to.”
― Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
― Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
“To apply quantum theory to the entire universe... is tricky... particles of matter fired at a screen with two slits in it... exhibit interference patterns just as water waves do.
Feynman showed that this arises because a particle does not have a unique history.
That is, as it moves from its starting point A to some endpoint B, it doesn’t take one definite path, but rather simultaneously takes every possible path connecting the two points.
From this point of view, interference is no surprise because, for instance, the particle can travel through both slits at the same time and interfere with itself.
In this view, the universe appeared spontaneously, starting off in every possible way.”
― The Grand Design
Feynman showed that this arises because a particle does not have a unique history.
That is, as it moves from its starting point A to some endpoint B, it doesn’t take one definite path, but rather simultaneously takes every possible path connecting the two points.
From this point of view, interference is no surprise because, for instance, the particle can travel through both slits at the same time and interfere with itself.
In this view, the universe appeared spontaneously, starting off in every possible way.”
― The Grand Design
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