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Quantum Physics, God's new pet name, is whatever you want it to be...

Impossible to grasp intellectually, you miss it as soon as you try to look directly at it, academic science finally hands it out for the layman... The New-Age God of creation, the gut of your consciousness and that of rock, its small hands working the universe in a way most delightful for those who follow the right homeopathic rituals.

As an explanation gets more in more complex, it starts to look more and more like a superstitious statement... for those who don't pay attention in class.

Our scientists have gone too far in the future, making us feel like midieval peasants, being handed Ipods and not having a clue how it's even possible to build one.

We've just let go of a three-millenia-old god. Give us another three to catch up.
And untill then, someone please keep David Deutsch distracted.

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    Sep 16 2011: there is a stark contrast between a theory that lacks content and a theory with a content too complex for you to understand.
  • Sep 16 2011: Re Quantum Physics, God's new pet name, is whatever you want it to be...

    which is just as it was before the term "Quantum Physics" was brought in to HUman awareness