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...does the talk, which sometimes sounds like intelligent speech turned up to a volume of impenetrable noise. An incidental character remarks to Dale at a cocktail party, "As you know, inside the Planck length and the Planck duration you have this space-time foam where the quantum fluctuations from matter to non-matter really have very little meaning, mathematically speaking. You have a Higgs field tunnelling in a quantum fluctuation through the energy barrier in a false-vacuum state, and you get this bubble of broken symmetry that by negative pressure expands exponentially...
...event that came to be called the "well-known accident," Clinton Davisson and his colleague Lester Germer in 1925 inadvertently stumbled on experimental proof of a crucial aspect of quantum theory. Davisson noticed that a stream of electrons beamed at a crystal of pure nickel was diffracted, a phenomenon that is characteristic of light waves. Electrons had been thought to exist only as sub-atomic particles until, just a few years before Davisson's observation, the newly developing quantum theory suggested that electrons could behave as both particles and waves. Here was proof, and it won Davisson a Nobel...
...country's 74 provinces. In addition, the killing of Aquino created a nationwide crisis of confidence that caused the already stagnant economy to spiral downward, even as most other Southeast Asian nations were prospering. After the assassination, says an American official, "all these concerns took a quantum leap...
...many educators these quantum changes, both in numbers and life-style, , are a reflection of the swing toward Establishment values and conservatism on campuses. Virginia's assistant dean of students, Terry Appolonia, confirms that today's collegians "are seeking more and more ties to the Establishment." Mitchel Livingston, Ohio State's dean of student life, says, "They want to be part of a group which has similar ideas and values to their own." He adds, "Fraternities and sororities are the answer. It's all part of the trend to affiliate with an organization...
...University's extension has grown by quantum leaps since Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell opened the school's doors in 1910. Back then, 863 people registered for 16 courses. This year more than 9250 students have enrolled in 500-plus courses-a program second only to Northeastern in size in the Boston area...