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In Our Time: Science

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The Problem With Quantum Mechanics

Quantum mechanics is both the best theory that we have ever come up with and the worst. The predictions that you get from experiments based on quantum mechanics are some of the most accurate known to man. It tells you that at some fundamental level, a particle is not really a particles but a wave. And now you have to conceptualize that image and go from predictions that match that picture perfectly to the solidity that we have in our day-to-day existence.

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