A Whole, New, Quantum World

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ny applications. Some of these applications include satellite technology, computer chips, calculators, atomic clocks, and Global Positioning Systems (Baker). The principles of quantum physics that have been applied to chemistry have a large impact on everyday life.
The principles of quantum physics have not only created explanations in ecology, but it has also given people a new perspective in the field. Ecology is the study of the connection between organisms and nature. Quantum physics gives a new view on this field with its principle of non-locality. It shows that the actions of particles are influenced by everything else, that their actions are not ever completely independent. This opens up many possibilities in ecology. Catherine Larrére makes this connection in Land, Value, and Community when she says, “Everybody agrees that nature can no longer be seen, as it was in the modern era, as made of . . . discrete entities connected by external relations,” (qtd. in Ouderkirk and Hill 154). Non-locality can let one see how every organism ...