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Faith and quantum theory.
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Quantum theory is unsettling. Nobel laureate Richard Feynman admitted that it "appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone--both to the novice and to the experienced physicist." Niels Bohr, one of its founders, told a young colleague, "If it does not boggle your mind, you understand nothing." Physicists have been quarreling over its interpretation since the legendary arguments between Bohr and Einstein in the 1920s. So have philosophers, who agree that it has profound implications ...
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