Physics and Christmas.
From: National Review
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Date: 12/31/1989
Physics and Christmas
THE MORE deeply you penetrate into science, the more mysterious things become. Lucretius and George Santayana notwithstanding, the fundamdental fact of the universe seems not to be "matter" but energy. And when quantum physicists study micro-particles much smaller than atoms, peculiar things emerge. In a recnt article, Tom Bethel quoted the late Cal Tech Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman: "I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics. ...
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