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  • 01 Physics · August 2026 · 18 min

    Nobody Understands It, and It Has Never Been Wrong

    Quantum theory was not chosen. It was forced on physics by experiments that would not go away, by men who mostly disliked what they had found. A century later it is the most precisely verified description of nature we possess—and it still cannot tell you what happens when you look.

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