quantum
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A century of quantum theory has shown otherwise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"Our work can now be used to make more accurate predictions about many materials of interest for quantum technologies," added Yu Jin.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
He instead favors an approach called loop quantum gravity, which involves a new understanding of space itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
“And more importantly, we saw 68% remission in our clinical trial. So, it’s really a quantum change, an inflection point in what we can offer to patients. From a clinical care perspective, that’s really meaningful.”
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
That theory, quantum mechanics, will be described next, before we turn to the efforts to combine the two partial theories into a single quantum theory of gravity.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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 order to see and study single quanta of sound, the number of phonons must be minimized.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
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
General relativity does not contain any notion of quanta; a quantum theory of gravity is an ambition that remains unfinished today.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
They vibrate only with certain acceptable energies, called quanta.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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