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In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

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Don't look here for any "eastern mysticism", spoon bending or ESP. Do look here for the true story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.... The question this book addresses is "What is reality?" The answer(s) may surprise you; you may not believe them.

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All the implications of special relativity... have been confirmed by direct experiments. There are still people who believe it is "just a theory." But they are wrong.

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No matter how beautiful the whole model may be, no matter how naturally it all seems to hang together now, if it disagrees with experiment, then it is wrong.

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"Big Crunch" is... an ugly term which hardly seems appropriate for so important an event as the end of the universe. But there is no convention as yet for a label of the moment of destruction at the end of time, and I am free to borrow the term "omega point."

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

John Gribbin

John Gribbin
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Born: March 19, 1946 (age 79)
Bio: John R. Gribbin is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex.
Known for:
  1. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat (1984)
  2. Deep simplicity (2004)

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