How to Use quantum mechanics in a Sentence

quantum mechanics

noun

• All the same, some suspect that for this view of quantum mechanics, the writing is on the wall.
  — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
• The term quantum mechanics is first used in a paper by Max Born.
  — Gil Press, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• In the bizarre world of quantum mechanics, electrons and photons can be in two states at once.
  — Arthur Herman, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• And those laser beams are composed of photons that obey the rules of quantum mechanics.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 July 2020
• Now, that is something that is no longer true in the context of quantum mechanics.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• But unlike Earth and the moon, electrons and photons obey the rules of quantum mechanics.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
• The physics of the event horizon is a long-standing problem in quantum mechanics.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2023
• The starting point was me trying to get my hand around quantum mechanics.
  — Hugh Hart, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2020
• What does this poor creature have to do with quantum mechanics?
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 24 July 2021
• He was cut off from the outside world, detained with only a book on quantum mechanics to read.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Less well known is that the inherent fuzziness of quantum mechanics applies to the past as well as the future.
  — Paul Davies, Slate Magazine, 16 Mar. 2017
• The solution might be to go small, beyond small, to the point where quantum mechanics come into play.
  — David Lumb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2020
• Or quantum mechanics, which had the feverish air of a revolution in the 1920s.
  — Sam Kean, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
• There are some things about quantum mechanics that are very strange and very counter-intuitive.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2020
• The concept of a multiverse originally came from quantum mechanics, the branch of physics that explains the very strange world of the very small.
  — Meeri Kim, Slate Magazine, 28 July 2017
• But modern mechanics – the physics of light, atoms, quantum mechanics and curved space-time – changed this concept of force.
  — Larry M. Silverberg, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
• Such a loss would go against the laws of quantum mechanics, which say that information cannot be destroyed.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
• This many worlds view of quantum mechanics was first set out by physicist Hugh Everett in the 1950s, and has slowly gained followers in the decades since.
  — Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
• The electrons and atoms within the protein have to move according to the laws of quantum mechanics, which act as something like a rulebook.
  — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Wired, 10 Dec. 2021
• But Buddhism and quantum mechanics have much to teach each other.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• The black box of quantum mechanics has expanded to encompass the world.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2021
• But down at the level of quantum mechanics, the laws of thermodynamics don’t always apply in quite the same way.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 3 May 2023
• The reason that this can happen is that the space of possibilities in quantum mechanics is huge.
  — Eugene Lim, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2015
• If, indeed, the rules of quantum mechanics apply, then this is where the fun work of imagining the multiverse can begin.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2022
• Recall that quantum mechanics was first developed in Europe, and then moved to the United States.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2019
• Researchers continue to argue over the best way to think about quantum mechanics.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2019
• Due to the nature of quantum mechanics, it’s believed any attempt to eavesdrop on such a network would alter the photons, alerting the users.
  — Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• But once again, quantum mechanics comes into the picture.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• The results showed that the world bore out the predictions of quantum mechanics, showing correlations that remained far stronger than Bell’s inequality allowed.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2024
• Different atomic elements absorb and emit light at very specific colors (the electrons zipping around the atom’s nucleus can only absorb discrete amounts of energy, a fact that gave rise to the development of quantum mechanics in the first place).
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024