Quantum Theory 's Most Imaginative Prediction | Space Time

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Let’s talk about the best evidence we have that the theories of quantum physics truly represent the underlying workings of reality.
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Quantum field theory is notoriously complicated, built from mind-bendingly abstract mathematics. But are the underlying rules of reality really so far from human intuition? Or are physicists just showing off? For better or worse, the physicists are definitely on the right track. We know this because the predictions of quantum field theory stand up to experimental test time and time again.

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