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The simplicity of Bell's proof opens it to everyone, not just physicists and mathematicians.

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Physicists cannot explain atoms to their children, not because we are ignorant but because we know too much.

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One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists have lost their grip on reality.

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Physicists continue to debate whether Bell's theorem is airtight or not. However, the real question is not whether Bell can prove beyond doubt that reality is non-local, but whether the world is in fact no-local.

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Physicists, for all their odd notions, are basically a conservative lot.

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The world is one substance. As satisfying as this discovery may be to philosophers, it is profoundly distressing to physicists as long as they do not understand the nature of that substance. For if quantum stuff is all there is and you don't understand quantum stuff, your ignorance is complete.

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Although most physicists today place the probability of the existence of tachyons only slightly higher than the existence of unicorns, research into the properties of these hypothetical FTL [faster than light] particles has not been entirely fruitless.

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