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Zero Philosophy's avatar

Origin of quantum mechanics in diagonal method, from Carlo Rovelli's Helgoland:

"Heisenberg's idea is to write all the quantities which describe the movement of the electron -- position, velocity, energy -- no longer as numbers, but as tables of numbers. Instead of having a single position x for the electron, we have an entire table of possible positions X: one for every possible leap. ..."

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PulsatingShadow's avatar

Wondering if eastern countries would have arrived at a Wu Xing inspired pentamorphic compass.

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