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2 - What's It Like to Discover Quantum Mechanics?

Why This Universe?

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Why This Universe - Is There a New Generation of Physicists?

The stuff that attracts people like you and me to physics in 2020 are things like relativity and quantum mechanics. Dan Hooper: I wonder if because of that, we have a more open-minded generation or something like that. Some find there to be a lot of elegance and beauty in ordinary 1880 classical physics. We're just not two of them.

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