By Robert Crease
63 so Mr Bohr's "quantum leap" became a pop phrase and in thenprocess it's meaning was changed. When we say "quantum leap" we mean a huge step forward in space and technology. When in reality a quantum leap is quite small. So the nexxt time I hear that something is a quantum leap forward I will think "really that small huh".
Update: pg 69 If the scale.were the same the space traveled by the electron would be equivalent to own trip to the sun. So it ereally is a huge leap after all albeit in a tiny place.
Books:
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution
Music and the Making of Modern Science
Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature
Essays:
How You Get That Story: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and the Literature of the Vietnam War
Article first published online: 4 OCT 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2005.00177.x
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