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quantum jump
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quantum jump [′kwän·təm ′jəmp]
(quantum mechanics)
The transition of a quantum system from one stationary state to another, accompanied by emission or absorption of energy.
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takes the informed general reader through relativity theory and quantum physics on the large scale as well as the very small, reviewing theories of Newton, Boltzmann, Einstein, Penrose, Schrodinger and Hawking and the notions of flat and curved time-space, closed timelike curves, the paradoxes of time travel, time asymmetry and the Second Law, entropy, electrodynamics, the emergence of order, quantum jumps, quantum gravity, and the role of the human observer in all of it.
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