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“You can recognize a deep truth by the feature that its opposite is also a deep truth.”
Nobel-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on complementarity as the quantum of life and why reality is woven of opposing truths:
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The central mystery of quantum mechanics, animated:
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“How we ask our questions affects the answers we arrive at… Science and religion… ask different kinds of questions altogether, probing and illuminating in ways neither could alone.”
Einstein’s God – mind-bending, soul-stretching read on free will, science, and spirituality:
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An imaginative allegory of quantum physics, written and illustrated (!) by a CERN physicist, doubly brilliant for flying in the face of gender stereotypes with a female protagonist who makes sense of some of the most intense science of all time.
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