Chapter 2: Postulates of Quantum Mechanics

"The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind."

– Titus Lucretius Carus

Figure 2.1 – Titus Lucretius Carus gazing at the Milky Way galaxy [authors] built from an image of Titus Lucretius in the public domain and an image of the Milky Way galaxy [NASA]

In the first two books of his six-book poem De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), Titus Lucretius Carus, a Roman poet and philosopher, discusses life and love and explains the basic principles of Epicurean physics, a Greek way of ...

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