quantum theory
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- noun
- /ˈkwɒntəm ˈθɪəri/
- Specialized
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teoría cuántica
- As you can see from my calculations, we will soon be able to combine general relativity and quantum theory.
- quantum theory and relativity
- quantum theory of spacetime
- relativistic quantum theory
When you incorporate quantum theory, you get different results.
- When you incorporate quantum theory, you get different results.
- It's because the quantum theory is not complete.
- So our conception of what the vacuum is in quantum theory is changed from our naive picture.
- The key difference in quantum theory is that these probabilities are fundamental.
- So start with the quantum theory and try to build up a model of space-time, the emergence of space-time.
- It's, it's a, it's a sort of hint about the way that quantum theory and gravity fit together.
- But it turns out that quantum theory, really a big part of it is about quantum spin.
- Abstract thinking of mathematicians was kind of ahead in quantum theory.
- So that we assume that relativity is an imperfect mirror and quantum theory is an imperfect mirror.
- Well, there's no no one's given a principled account that says that first quantum theory holds at all scales.
- We don't have a good quantum theory, but we don't have a good quantum theory in gravity.
- The path less taken is to leave gravity a non quantum theory or to change something about quantum physics.
Examples
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According to textbook quantum theory, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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When you incorporate quantum theory, you get different results.
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It's because the quantum theory is not complete.
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I hear you want to start a school of quantum theory.
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I explained quantum theory to the class the way it had been explained to me.
Fiction book (1995) -
The key difference in quantum theory is that these probabilities are fundamental.
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So far you've seen quantum theory applied to gases, right?
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Thus, his early work in theoretical physics focused on applying the new quantum theory to the understanding of diverse phenomena.
Academic text (2004) -
Relativity theory and quantum theory, in particular, overturned everything that had gone before.
Academic text (2001) -
Decades of experiments have verified the quirky laws of quantum theory again and again.
Synonyms
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A branch of physics that explains how very small particles like atoms and electrons behave
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: combining 'quantum' (discrete quantity) with 'theory' (set of ideas) yields a theory about quanta, which matches the given definition. This noun+noun compositional pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Quantum theory gets its name from the word quantum, a Latin word that meant 'how much' and later came to mean a fixed 'amount'. Early scientists found that energy seems to come in small 'packets', so they called the idea quantum theory, meaning a theory about those small, separate amounts.