How to Use quantum theory in a Sentence

quantum theory

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• In quantum theory, that's enough to put the cup in one place or the other.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 12 Sep. 2019
• In short, quantum theory suggests that black holes are hairy, but nobody knows what the hair is.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019
• But in the 1960s, quantum theory failed physicists once again.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
• The secret to fixing a fatal flaw at the heart of quantum theory may lie in three obscure textbooks from the 1980s.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• This work stemmed from the mystery of how quantum theory itself works.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2023
• In the jargon of quantum theory, the friend’s result is a hidden variable.
  — George Musser, Science | AAAS, 17 Aug. 2020
• Schrödinger proposed the scenario in a 1935 paper as a criticism of quantum theory at the time.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2022
• Thanks to the weirdness of quantum theory, that splitting means that each atom in the BEC literally takes both paths at once.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 7 Sep. 2017
• Researchers have sought the quantum theory of gravity since the 1930s.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2020
• Hawking thought at first that the problem would be solved by changing quantum theory.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 20 Mar. 2018
• The noose seems to be tightening on this attempt to resolve the biggest mystery of quantum theory.
  — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
• Current is the flow of electrons; and, in quantum theory, electrons possess spins.
  — Martin Weil, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• In traditional quantum theory, that path is described by the wave function of the Schrödinger equation.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2019
• Over time, physicists began to merge the two fields of quantum theory and computing to create the field of quantum computing.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Einstein, though one of the founders of quantum theory, rejected it, saying famously, God did not play dice with the universe.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• From quantum theory to atom smashers The brothers were both working as physicists when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941.
  — Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• Yet quantum theory struggles to explain these curves in its language of particles and fields.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2022
• Physicists need a quantum theory of gravity to understand how things that fall in black holes also get out.
  — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2019
• The third argument for the multiverse comes from quantum theory.
  — Dan Falk /, NBC News, 22 May 2018
• When discussing quantum theory, the Institute of Physics says that a superposition is the idea that a particle can be in two places at once.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2019
• Researchers hope that quantum theory could focus a microscope on that point and track what becomes of the material that falls in.
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
• Hawking made the first great stride toward finding this theory by applying the quantum theory to black holes.
  — Michio Kaku, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2018
• Yeah, so there is some energy intrinsic to the vacuum of a quantum theory.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• Turok, too, remains optimistic that a new era of physics may be just around the corner — one that might produce bold new ideas on the scale of quantum theory and relativity.
  — Dan Falk /, NBC News, 2 June 2018
• But according to quantum theory, each nucleus acts like a wave as well as a particle.
  — Dan Falk, National Geographic, 17 Aug. 2020
• Researchers initially spotted the pattern in the outputs of naïve models of quantum theory.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Nov. 2021
• The basic idea is that the gravitational field of any object stands outside quantum theory.
  — George Musser, Science | AAAS, 7 Sep. 2020
• That attempt hasn’t seen a lot of success because nobody has been able to use string theory to develop a quantum theory of gravity—all the math just gets too complex to solve.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2022
• Or, as Penrose preferred, perhaps quantum theory ceases to apply at large scales, when gravity gets in on the action.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2024
• But Tang and company used techniques far removed from quantum theory.
  — Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024