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Says John Deutsch, a U.S. Department of Energy specialist who visited China with Schlesinger: "For a decade during the Cultural Revolution, quantum mechanics was not taught in universities in this country because it was considered theoretical rather than practical and because it was supposedly 'invented by foreigners.' " Though such obscurantism is no longer official policy, there remains a woeful lack of teachers and teaching aids. During Schlesmger's tour of the Harbin Polytechnic Institute, Correspondent Talbott saw one class assembling primitive watches and another studying the inner workings of antique radios made with vacuum tubes rather than...
Notwithstanding Caltech's emphasis on theory?epitomized by Nobel-Prize-winning Physicist Richard Feynman's abstruse calculations involving quantum electrodynamics?faculty members are eagerly sought out for advice by business and government. Faculty members are permitted up to 52 days annually of outside consulting work, which supplements salaries averaging $28,100. Caltech's past president, Harold Brown, was so well known as a top nuclear-weapons specialist that Jimmy Carter whisked him from Pasadena to become Secretary of Defense. Large high-technology companies, such as Beckman Instruments and TRW, both founded by Caltech alumni, value their close ties...
...well have qualified for the Nobel Prize by taking the first step toward a goal that has long been a dream of physicists: the consummation of what Wheeler calls the "fiery marriage" between general relativity-the great theoretical system for studying the large-scale structure of the cosmos-and quantum mechanics-the mathematical tool for analyzing the diminutive world of the atomic nucleus...
...subjective experience, the T.M. technique provides a natural means of arriving at "transcendental" or "pure" consciousness. This field also is called absolute, is unmanifest like the vacuum state, yet can be directly experienced. The following list of expressions have all been used by physicists in describing the quantum vacuum state and by T.M. practitioners in describing their experience of pure consciousness: perfectly orderly; perfectly stable; nonchanging; the source of all change; unbounded; the basis of natural laws; the state of least excitation; the field of all possibilities...