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[Unedited] John Polkinghorne with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

CHAPTER

The Unquestionable Consequences of Wave Theory

In the 19th century, people have been arguing about what light was like for a long time. Paul Dirac in 1920 at Cambridge suddenly made it clear how light could give a wave-like answer or a particle-like answer if you asked a particle-Like question. We don't make progress by chopping experience down to a size that fits into our current series. We have to allow the way the world is to modify our understanding of the world. And then the thing has a happy ending.

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