The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum. Bells experiment, talking it up in books like his first. Books by physics titans stephen hawking and martin rees recall a bygone golden age, when science seemed capable of anything. About the relative size of things in the universe, human diversity, the discovery of subatomic particles, and several more. With exceptional scientific, historical, and philosophical insights, despagnat examines. With exceptional scientific, historical, and philosophical insights, despagnat. Bells theorem and its first experimental tests arxiv.
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