It's because I know nothing about quantum physics.
The woods are filled with Nobel laureates who know everything about quantum physics and are also teaching and administrative wizards, adept at battling distant bureaucracies, negotiating school bus contracts and reminding the kids to walk on the right side of the white line.
We decided to take up a quantum physics internship in Vienna together, even though we didn't know much about quantum physics then.
I'm a neurobiologist, but I don't know much more about quantum physics than the average musician, and I could no sooner read a physics paper in a science journal than I could read the score of a Brahms symphony.
As far as I know quantum physics and relativity theory will never get along.
I was reading about Quantum Physics, and when I saw these marks, it occurred to me that at a very deep level, the universe was drawing, and that this "drawing" knit everything together.
She asked me what I won the Nobel Prize for, and when I said "Quantum physics," she said, "Oh, we can't talk about that because nobody understands it," and I said: "On the contrary, we know quite a lot about quantum physics, and that's why we can't talk about it.
I picked up a book about quantum physics and super-string theory I have been meaning to read for ages, for a column I'm thinking of writing.
I loved Ben Miller waxing lyrical about quantum physics – he wouldn't be allowed to do that on The One Show.
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I like it when Caroline, mid sofa-snog (with chocolates) with girlfriend Katie, answers Jeremy Paxman's University Challenge question on the telly about quantum physics.
