Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
practical purposes, we can be completely satisfied with it. But if you take quantum theory seriously beyond practical purposes, it has baffling implications”12 [emphasis in original]. Further, it “is the most battle-tested theory in all of science. It has no competitors.… Niels Bohr, a founder of quantum theory, warned that unless you’re shocked by
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Quantum mechanics and experiments with particles have taught us that the world is a continuous, restless swarming of things; a continuous coming to light and disappearance of ephemeral entities. A set of vibrations, as in the switched-on hippy world of the 1960s. A world of happenings, not of things.
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