Nick Herbert Quotes

Most everywhere, most of the time, the world dwells in an unmeasured state.

Physicists continue to debate whether Bell's theorem is airtight or not. However, the real question is not whether Bell can prove beyond doubt that reality is non-local, but whether the world is in fact no-local.

Physicists, for all their odd notions, are basically a conservative lot.

The pragmatist regards any theory as a mere mathematical machine for generating numbers which he then compares with experiment. A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality. The pragmatist refuses on principle to speculate about deep reality, such a concept being meaningless from his point of view. Pragmatism is an intelectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

The quantum world is objective but objectless.

A universe that displays local phenomena but upon a non-local reality is the only sort of world consistent with known facts and Bell's proof.

The gist of Bell's theorem is this: no local model of reality can explain the results of a particular experiment.

No local reality can explain the type of world we live in.

The quantum world is not made up of objects.

Bell himself managed to devise such a proof which rejects all models of reality possessing the property of "locality". This proof has since become known as Bells theorem. It asserts that no local model of reality can underlie the quantum facts. Bell's theorem says that reality must be non-local.

The simplicity of Bell's proof opens it to everyone, not just physicists and mathematicians.

The entire visible universe, what Bishop Berkley called "the mighty frame of the world," rests ultimately on a strange quantum kind of being no more substantial than a promise.

One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists have lost their grip on reality.

One of the curious features of modern physics is that in spite of its overwhelming success in explaining a vast range of physical phenomena from quark to quasar, it fails to give us a single metaphor for how the universe really works.

Strictly speaking, there are no "measurements" in the world, only correlations.