quantum
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One example is the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, which appears in attempts to combine quantum mechanics with gravity.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Future experiments could extend this approach to more complicated quantum systems, allowing researchers to explore models of the Big Bang and the Big Crunch in greater detail.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
This equation describes how the quantum state of a system evolves, including changes in the probability of finding particles in particular locations or states.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
These fields attempt to understand how the universe behaves when quantum effects and gravity must be considered together, including under the extreme conditions associated with the early cosmos.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Physicists began to think that string theory would unify quantum mechanics with relativity; they believed that it would lead to the theory of quantum gravity—the Theory of Everything that explains every phenomenon in the universe.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
In a semiconductor field-effect transistor, there is a two-dimensional electron channel where a collective charge-density quanta, i.e., two-dimensional plasmons, exist.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2023
Quantum theory typically deals with the universe in tiny chunks, or quanta, while general relativity takes the cosmos to be continuous even at the smallest scales.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 19, 2023
Quantum mechanics describes how, in the subatomic realm, everything is broken up in discrete chunks, or quanta, such as the individual particles of light called photons.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
“He responded, rather vaguely, with some small notions about highspeed rotating mirrors, chopping the tails off quanta and other single-shot ideas,” Tuve would recall.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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