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...search for smaller and smaller particles is a natural outgrowth of quantum mechanical theory, Georgi says...
...Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics which attempts to explain the apparent discrepancy between light's motion as a wave and as a particle. It reconciles evidence that light consists of small bundles of energy, called photons, with the classical belief that light travels in the form of waves...
...just as quantum physicists have revealed that the world inside the atom -- with its whizzing elementary particles and clouds of electrons -- is just as grand as the big, blooming universe outside, artists who construct a magnum opus out of the microscopic have become major-leaguers...
Nicholson Baker is a subatomic physicist of fiction, a quantum suburban Proust. He is a wizard at anatomizing the micromechanics of mental life, at charting the quicksilver zigzags of decision and indecision, a writer who can spin out a mock epic from a pair of broken shoelaces...
...principle behind all this precision comes from quantum physics. When an atom is bombarded with electromagnetic radiation -- in this case microwaves -- it shifts into a new energy state. Each type of atom responds most readily to a particular frequency. For the cesium-133 atoms in most atomic clocks, the frequency is 9,192,631,770 vibrations per second. When a microwave beam inside the clock is set to that frequency, the maximum number of atoms will undergo the energy switch, signaling the clock's internal computer that the device is correctly tuned. The vibrating microwaves keep time; the atoms just...