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59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Mismatch Between What You Predicted and What You Saw

A slight miscalibration between what you predicted and what you saw. And at first people just thought it would go away. But as experimental techniques and theory got better, the mismatch became more obvious. This led to the development of a new foundational theory of quantum physics called quantum electrodynamics.

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