J. William Schopf Quotes
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“For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.”
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“There are a variety of technical definitions for the term 'nonlocal' within physics, but the basic concept is straightforward. Everyday common sense tells us that physical objects interact by bashing into each other.
By contrast, fields, like gravity, do not seem to follow this simplistic idea, but fields too eventually came to be interpreted as forces carried by particles traveling at the speed of light.
Within classical physics the idea of fields and forces seemed to describe just about everything. Everything, that is, except some peculiarities about the nature of light.
To gain a deeper understanding of light, quantum mechanics was developed, and out of that our understanding of basic physical concepts like force and causality went through a radical transformation.
Let’s just say that a nonlocal effect is an interaction that does not involve force, nor does it involve the transfer of signals, and it happens instantaneously regardless of the distance between the objects.
Instantaneously does not mean faster than the speed of light; rather, it means without any time passing at all.”
