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What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?

The Joy of Why

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Quantenfield Theorem

In the 19 fifties, shen ching woo discovered what we call parity violation. This is the statement that when you look at something happening in front of you, or you look at its image in a mirror, you can tell whether it was happening in real world or happening in the mirror. It's this aspect of the laws of physics, that what happens reflected in a mirror is different from what happens in reality, that turns out to be problematic. So we can't simulate the laws ofysics, but it means no one else can either.

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