The Quantum Physicists: And an Introduction to Their PhysicsAn absorbing narrative of the development of quantum physics and of the human endeavors of the scientists involved. |
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Page 3 - AS our mental eye penetrates into smaller and smaller distances and shorter and shorter times, we find nature behaving so entirely differently from what we observe in visible and palpable bodies of our surrounding that no model shaped after our large-scale experiences can ever be 'true.