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THE THESIS. “I will defend a variant of the traditional reading of Bohr in which (1) the answer to what an object is (quantum or classical) depends on the experimental context; and (2) in principle, any physical system can be treated quantum-mechanically but not all systems can be treated that way at the same time.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

“Snails usually have a spiral-shaped shell which is wound around a spindle. This is the snail shell which they retract their soft bodies into when there is danger. Because of this, they are asymmetrical, and this asymmetry is mirrored inside their bodies. The snail shell is al- ways constructed in the same way. The direction of the spiral is typi- cal for a particular species.” https://lnkd.in/e63P9ske View in LinkedIn

BOHR’S POSITION. “Recently, however, a consensus seems to be emerging among careful commentators on Bohr to the effect that he, after all, did subscribe to some version of quantum fundamentalism.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

TWO WORLDS. “Bohr’s conception of quantum mechanics has traditionally been seen as opposed to such a view, not least because of his insistence on the necessity of the concepts of classical physics in the account of quantum phenomena.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

A QUANTUM WORLD? “The spectacular successes of quantum physics have made it a commonplace to assert that we live in a quantum world. This idea seems to imply a kind of “quantum fundamentalism” according to which everything in the universe (if not the universe as a whole) is fundamentally of a quantum nature and ultimately describable in quantum-mechanical terms.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

AUTHOR. “Henrik Zinkernagel has a degree in theoretical physics and a doctorate in philosophy of science. He is a full professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Granada.” https://lnkd.in/emyq2BPE View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on a consideration of some of the ideas of the famous quantum physicist Niels Bohr, titled Are we living in a quantum world? Bohr and quantum fundamentalism. Bohr was a Danish physicist “who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.” A remarkable thinker by any standards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr View in LinkedIn

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PROGRAMMABLE FOODS. “Here, we devise meta-atoms with tailored fracture properties to control mouthfeel sensory experience.” https://lnkd.in/eD7iFAGi View in LinkedIn

COUPLED FIELDS. “The electric and magnetic dipole moments (p and m) of meta-atoms are not always independent. They can be mutually coupled, i.e. the both components of incident electromagnetic field (E and H) simultaneously induce p and m. This effect is usually called bianisotropy (BA).” https://lnkd.in/e5fJZNfb View in LinkedIn