I burned up many chips and circuits. I discovered how electronic components work: They are full of smoke. If the smoke gets out, they don’t work anymore.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn, persistent illusion.
If we take quantum theory seriously as a picture of what’s really going on, each measurement does more than disturb: it profoundly reshapes the very fabric of reality.
One can’t break the laws of physics, but you can be civilly disobedient towards them.
What flavor of crazy Kool-aid do they make you drink when you join the physics department?
TV: Numb3rs - 2x17
Now, a lot of people say athletes getting away with crime sends the wrong message to our children. Children who naturally love to break rules, now have another reason to idolize these monsters of the midway. I say we should harness their thirst for mayhem to steer them toward the fields we want our children to excel in. Wanna raise math and science scores? Fine! Let scientists and mathematicians commit random acts of violence without repurcussions. That way kids will want to be like them.
TV: The Colbert Réport: 2 Feb 2006
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
The prevailing trend in modern physics is thus much against any sort of view giving primacy to undivided wholeness of flowing movement. Indeed, those aspects of relativity theory and quantum theory which do suggest the need for such a view tend to be de-emphasized and in fact hardly noticed by most physicists, because they are regarded largely as features of the mathematical calculus and not as indications of the real nature of things.
Here we have e to the minus blah blah blah, and we have e to the plus blah blah blah—and that is one.
in Quantum Mechanics class
Usually, a lot of fundamental questions are not of practical importance.
in Quantum Mechanics class
If I assign a problem you have not seen, then it disadvantages everybody equally. So justice will be done.
in Quantum Mechanics class
Perturbation Theory: A way of solving problems that one cannot solve.
in Quantum Mechanics class
ħ is so important that I once spelled the name of a student with ħ.
in Quantum Mechanics class
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations, then so much the worse for Maxwell’s equations. And if your theory contradicts the facts, well, sometimes these experimentalists make mistakes. But if your theory is found to be against the Second Law of Thermodynamics, I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
In physics, you don’t have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
There is nothing special in the world. Nothing magic. Just physics.
Book: “Diary” by Chuck Palahniuk, pg 192
Reality is merely sequences of events that happen relative to one another; time is an illusion.
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.
I assumed that since your group has four A students, you guys didn’t need as much help as the other groups where people were trying to kill each other with pens.
However, without dedicated physics hardware game developers are unable to fully unleash the power of physics on today’s platforms.
This is really ugly…so we just use Mathematica and hope for the best.
Numbers make sense to me. Physics teachers, eh…
Stupidity is like entropy: it always increases and you have to do work to get rid of it.
The way to think up the name for a new product is to take some perfectly good English word and misspell it.