How to Use quantum mechanics in a Sentence

quantum mechanics

noun
  • This is called the many-worlds view of quantum mechanics.
    — Zachary Slepian, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The issue, as is so often the case, lies with the strange rules of quantum mechanics.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Think of it as sort of Martin & Lewis, but with more quantum mechanics.
    — Luke Burbank, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
  • In quantum mechanics, there’s no such thing as certainty.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The nano-cluster was composed of hundreds of millions of atoms, which is very large in the world of quantum mechanics.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
  • But even clocks, in theory, are governed by quantum mechanics.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2026
  • To this day, physicists still don’t agree on what quantum mechanics is telling us about the nature of reality.
    — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Their goal is to push quantum mechanics further into the macroscopic world.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • In fact, in the strange world of quantum mechanics, the cat is actually both at once … until someone opens the box.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Researchers have used it in other areas of quantum mechanics, but not for noise analysis.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Does this mean quantum mechanics is evidence that the multiverse is real?
    — Zachary Slepian, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • No one doubts that quantum mechanics works, and works spectacularly.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • In this picture of quantum mechanics, universes branch off with every scenario.
    — Zachary Slepian, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But quantum mechanics gives us a much more precise (albeit weirder) description.
    — ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Physicists put a single chunk of metal into two places at once, the largest object ever shown to obey quantum mechanics’ weirdest rule.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 29 May 2026
  • Others have raised concerns that these top quark experiments cannot reliably test quantum mechanics at all.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Relational quantum mechanics takes this idea a step further.
    — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
  • At the heart of the discovery lies one of quantum mechanics’ strangest features — uncertainty.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Learn the basics to solve problems, dealing with actions and properties governed by the laws of quantum mechanics.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
  • The electron is still in motion, and still has an uncertainty to its position due to the nature of quantum mechanics.
    — Big Think, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Scientists call the rules governing how these very small objects behave quantum mechanics.
    — Zachary Slepian, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The idea of waves propagating through a barrier has been around for a long time, since before the existence of quantum mechanics.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The central equation of quantum mechanics featured the imaginary number i, the square root of −1.
    — Daniel Garisto, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Interpretations of quantum mechanics are a bit like the quantum state itself.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • This violates a core rule of quantum mechanics, which says information must always be preserved.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026
  • This is something that makes no sense in the classical world, but is allowed in quantum mechanics through superposition.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Some researchers also felt that a certain ennui has settled over the effort to interpret quantum mechanics.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • At such extreme cold, atoms stop behaving like classical marbles and instead follow the strange rules of quantum mechanics.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2025
  • According to quantum mechanics, what’s left inside?
    — George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2026
  • This idea is profound if true, and remains one of the leading mainstream interpretations of quantum mechanics.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Aug. 2025

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