4 Quotes & Sayings By John Gribbin

John Gribbin is a scientist, writer, broadcaster, speaker and television presenter. He has written books on the physical sciences, history, philosophy and science fiction. He has also written filmscripts for films including The Day After Tomorrow. His books include The Science of Star Trek; A Beginner's Guide to the Universe; Inside Science; The Modern World; and Time's Arrow (with Stephen Hawking).

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In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else. John Gribbin
If the business of physics is ever finished, the world...
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If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live .. . John Gribbin
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Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - particles can be located precisely. Waves, on the other hand, have no precise location, but they do have momentum. The more you know about the wave aspect of reality, the less you know about the particle, and vice versa. Experiments designed to detect particles always detect particles; experiments designed to detect waves always detect waves. No experiment shows the electron behaving like a wave and a particle at the same time. John Gribbin