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Theory of everything: how a fear of failure is hampering physicists’ quest for the ultimate answer

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Sam McKee, Lecturer and researcher in Philosophy of Science, Manchester Metropolitan University

It has been over a century since the boom period of physics exploded with Albert Einstein, Max Planck and others, sending us spinning into a new world of chaos from our previously ordered universe. This brilliant generation of physicists ultimately peeled back the layers of the universe, as well as of the atom, to reveal a world stranger than fiction.

Ever since those earliest days of quantum mechanics, the theory ruling the microworld of atoms and…

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