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>I hope that physicist Dennis Whyte was being misquoted here. Why? Because quantum leaps are small? The metaphor is not comparing it to the size of the quant
by Jiro 5y ago
>I hope that physicist Dennis Whyte was being misquoted here.
Why? Because quantum leaps are small? The metaphor is not comparing it to the size of the quantum leap; the metaphor is that quantum leaps are discontinuous.
- leephillips 5y agoI thought he also believed that the advances were of significant size, but maybe I’m wrong and he did, in fact, mean to admit that this recent, discontinuous progress was minute.
- robertlagrant 5y agoPresumably all progress, far above the quantum level, is discontinuous anyway. The main usage seems to just be "big".