| 1. | "... of the stars and galaxies, the
search for a "Darwinian" explanation of the history of the
universe, the hope of finding one unified theory to explain everything,
how quantum mechanics..."
| Source: | Levinson, Martin H. "The Whole Shebang: A State of the Universe Report" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 55.4 Dec. 22 1998: 479-481
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| 2. | " As an example, the authors
point to quantum mechanics, "where the basic entity, the wave
function, exhibits a number of characteristics making it
unobservable" yet fundamental for understanding physical phenomena."
| Source: | McClelland, James W. "Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology: Understanding Element Cycles" Ecology 80.3 Apr. 1 1999: 1090-1091
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| 3. | " Physicists prize phenomena such as these
because they offer a sometimes bizarre, big-screen picture of quantum
mechanics in action."
| Source: | Weiss, P. "Glass may magnify ultrasmall-world oddities" Science News 157.10 Mar. 4 2000: 151
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| 4. | " The
standard model, being a theory that describes microscopic processes,
embraces quantum mechanics."
| Source: | Greene, Brian. "The Heart of Matter" Natural History 109.1 Feb. 1 2000: 80
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| 5. | "
Scientists say the experiments bring closer to reality a powerful
type of computer that would exploit the bizarre rules of quantum
mechanics (SN: 4/3/99, p. 220)."
| Source: | P.W. "Four ions mingle in quantum chorus" Science News 157.16 Apr. 15 2000: 255
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| 6. | "
Indeed, no one could have anticipated the way quantum mechanics
transformed our sense of reality."
| Source: | Pesic, Peter. "The bell & the buzzer: on the meaning of science" Daedalus 132.4 Sept. 22 2003: 35-45
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| 7. | "
Heisenberg's principle and related quantum truths also imply that
by observing a particle, you interfere with it. "The act of
observing determines the reality," as Tom Stoppard explained in
Hapgood, his 1988 spoof about spies and quantum mechanics."
| Source: | Wren, Celia. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Commonweal 77.12 June 16 2000: 17
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| 8. | " What Clayton does not here appreciate is the enormous
dissatisfaction in the foundations of physics community with the
traditional Copenhagen Interpretation and the resurgence of interest in
Bohmian quantum mechanics, which by restoring determinism threatens to
force Clayton's God-of-the-gaps out the world entirely."
| Source: | CRAIG, WILLIAM LANE. "God and Contemporary Science" Religious Studies 35.4 Dec. 1 1999: 493
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| 9. | "
Was Jaynes's life's work then just a long detour on an
unfulfilled quest for the Holy Grail of a "rational
explanation" of quantum mechanics?"
| Source: | Toffoli, Tommaso. "Honesty in inference" American Scientist 92.2 Mar. 1 2004: 182-186
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| 10. | "... was far higher in
innovative subdisciplines such as quantum theory or nuclear physics than
in paradigmatic old areas such as acoustics and mechanics."
| Source: | Bostaph, Samuel H.,Goodwin, Craufurd,Hagemann, Harald,Rima, Ingrid H.,Samules, Warren J.,Spiegel, Cecile,Moss, Laurence S. "Dr. Henry William Spiegel" American Journal of Economics and Sociology v57.n3 July 1 1998: 345-363
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| 11. | " In my own judgment, this new
explanatory idea, if and when it arrives, is likely to take us very far
from anything that is intuitively comfortable, farther than relativity
theory or quantum mechanics ever took us in physics."
| Source: | Cody, Arthur B. "Messages from the Genome" Commentary 109.6 June 1 2000: 37
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| 12. | "
This is the realm of quantum mechanics, superstring theory, chaos, and
complexity."
| Source: | Shapiro, Rami. "Science and Religion" Tikkun 15.2 Mar. 1 2000: 39
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| 13. | "
In the past few years, these trespassers have borrowed from quantum
mechanics, string theory, and other accomplishments of physics in an
attempt to divine undiscovered laws of finance."
| Source: | BAKER, OLIVER. "Schroedinger's Cash Register" Science News 156.22 Nov. 27 1999: 344
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| 14. | " For
interactions of such particles, the quantum mechanics theory that Bohr
was helping to establish happens to yield predictions that at high
energies match exactly those of classical physics."
| Source: | Weiss, P. "Physics rule of thumb gets thumbs down" Science News 156.22 Nov. 27 1999: 342
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| 15. | "
General relativity clashes with another major physics theory known
as quantum mechanics."
| Source: | Weiss, P. "Earth-moon model backs general relativity" Science News 156.18 Oct. 30 1999: 277
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| 16. | " Conventional Jewish theology is
anachronistic, incapable of embracing the scientific truths revealed by
chaos and complexity theories, quantum mechanics, and contemporary
biology."
| Source: | Shapiro, Rami. "A Jewish Agenda for the New Millennium" Tikkun 14.6 Nov. 1 1999: 63
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| 17. | "
SUBATOMIC THEORY
Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr and Ernst Pascual Jordan develop
quantum mechanics for atoms."
| Source: | . "1920-1929" Washington Times Apr. 26 1999: 10
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| 18. | "... has led to its abuse by people like Gore in much the
same way that relativity theory was once used to justify "moral
relativism" and quantum mechanics invoked in connection with
various New Age claptrap."
| Source: | . "Letters from Readers" Commentary 107.2 Feb. 1 1999: 3-4
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| 19. | "... by the removal of the first."
The new hurdle was to conciliate quantum mechanics with special
relativity and formulate a relativistic theory of the electron."
| Source: | Nappi, Chiara R. "Paul Dirac: The Man and His Work" American Scientist v86.n5 Sept. 1 1998: 482-484
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| 20. | "
Such a theory would reconcile Einstein's general
relativity--which explains gravity as the curvature of space-time--with
quantum mechanics --which describes the behavior of tiny things like
atoms and electrons."
| Source: | . "Is Time an Illusion?" Futurist 34.4 July 1 2000: 58
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| 21. | " This discussion leads to a final lecture
on the quest for a unified theory of the universe that would take into
consideration quantum mechanics as well as Newton's and
Einstein's version of gravity and the other physical forces."
| Source: | . "The Illustrated Theory of Everything" Science News 165.2 Jan. 10 2004: 31-32
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| 22. | " He ends by discussing the search for a
unifying theory of quantum gravity, a "theory of everything"
that would account for both general relativity and quantum phenomena."
| Source: | Olinto, Angela V. "Exotica of Stars" American Scientist 88.5 Sept. 1 2000: 467
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| 23. | " This form of realism
contributes to the dearth of biological theory with the broad organizing
power that quantum mechanics and relativity have given to physics."
| Source: | . "Letters from Readers" Commentary 110.2 Sept. 1 2000: 3
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| 24. | " Like Einstein+ Penrose believes
that such paradoxes will not be resolved until quantum mechanics is
found resting on a deeper theory."
| Source: | Gardner, Martin. "Theory of everything" New Criterion 23.2 Oct. 1 2004: 65-69
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| 25. | "... self-sufficiency abroad and to stop sowing the seeds of enmity
that have made us the principle target of terrorism on earth."
Hagelin, a Harvard University-educated quantum physicist, has more
or less wrapped up the presidential nomination..."
| Source: | Welch, Aimee. "Party Crashers" Insight on the News 16.31 Aug. 21 2000: 12
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