Reply #218: Are you referring to quantum mechanics?

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"Quantum physics" is a term that isn't used in the scientific community, so feel free to play J.R.R. Tolkien and make up a lexicon for your imaginary world. When used to descibe phenomena in this world, however, that term as well as the author's version of "algorithm" are useless. Again - a semantic clusterfuck.

"Quantum mechanics is essential to understand the behavior of systems at atomic length scales and smaller. For example, if classical mechanics governed the workings of an atom, electrons would rapidly travel towards and collide with the nucleus, making stable atoms impossible. However, in the natural world the electrons normally remain in an uncertain, non-deterministic "smeared" (wave-particle wave function) orbital path around or "through" the nucleus, defying classical electromagnetism."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics

"At atomic length scales and smaller." Finding an analog between human perception and the behavior of elementary particles is about as useful as comparing a planet's orbit to the shape of an onion ring. Utterly, completely, wholly, entirely devoid of value.