Decoherence In Quantum Quotes & Sayings

Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go. — Lenny Santos

The idols of modern culture have had a profound influence on the shape of our work today. In traditional societies people found their meaning and sense of value by submitting their interests and sacrificing their desires to serve higher causes like God, family, and other people. In modern societies there is often no higher cause than individual interests and desires. This shift powerfully changed the role of work in people's lives - it now became the way we defined ourselves. Traditional cultures tended to see people's place on the social ladder as assigned by nature or convention, each family having its "proper place." That view had put too little stock in the role of individual talent, ambition, and hard work for determining the outcome of one's life. But modern society responded by putting too much stock in the autonomous person. — Timothy Keller

Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one? — R. Scott Bakker

All right," he said. "Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on a stable null-sigma condensate that resists decoherence thanks to constructive feedback loops." He turned to the blackboard, scooped up a piece of chalk, and began writing rapidly. "See," he said, "using Dirac notation, if we let Webmind's default conscious state be represented by a bra of phi and a ket of psi, then this would be the einselected basis." His chalk flew across the board again. "Now, we can get the vector basis of the total combined Webmind alpha-state consciousness ... — Robert J. Sawyer

The mechanism by which quantum mechanics injects an element of chance into the operation of the universe is called "decoherence" (Gell-Mann and Hartle, 1994). Decoherence effectively creates new bits of information, bits which previously did not exist. In other words, quantum mechanics, via decoherence, is constantly injecting new bits of information into the world. Every detail that we see around us, every vein on a leaf, every whorl on a fingerprint, every star in the sky, can be traced back to some bit that quantum mechanics created. Quantum bits program the universe. — Paul Davies

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics. — Nick Clegg

I think I've done a lot of movies that people would like to have seen a sequel to. But I grew up in a time when we didn't do sequels. You just did a movie because you wanted to do a movie and you wanted to tell a story. It wasn't to build a franchise. — Kurt Russell

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle. — Valerie Harper

So, I became a chameleon ... [a]nd after a while I hardly knew what I really felt and thought because I became so good at adapting. — Gloria Miklowitz

I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the slutty new idea. — Matt De La Pena

Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless — M.G. Wells

Even I got turned down by girls, and when it happened, I dusted off my ego and moved on. — Richelle Mead

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play. — Pat Metheny

He coughs. Not a good sound. Too deep, too full of coffins.
Why is mankind so fucking cruel?
Why? — Sally Gardner

You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability. — Kendrick Lamar

There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start to do this bad Rick Moranis voice I do as well when I really get going. It's pretty horrible. — Al Madrigal

Anger flared through him, but anger was unproductive so he twisted it into pragmatism while he searched for a flaw. — Victoria Schwab