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« So I hope you will accept nature as it is: absurd. »
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Richard Feynman
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« Stories of flying saucers are more likely the result of the known irrational characteristics of earthly intelligence than the unknown rational efforts of an extraterrestrial intelligence. »
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Richard Feynman
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Richard Feynman
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« The theory of quantum electrodynamics is now more than fifty years old and has been verified more and more accurately, under the most diverse experimental conditions. Today, I can proudly tell you that there is no significant gap between theory and experience! To give you an idea of the accuracy of these experimental audits, I will just give you some recent numerical results. Measurements of the magnetic moment of the electron gives a value of 1.001 159 652 21 (with an indeterminacy of 4 on the last digit); the theory predicts a value of 1.001 159 652 46 (with uncertainty about five times greater). In order for you to be aware of the type of precision that this implies, I will make the following comparison: this precision is of the same order of magnitude as that which one would get by measuring the distance between Los Angeles and New York to the thickness of a near hair; this to give you an idea of the degree of refinement that has been achieved over the last fifty years, both experimentally and theoretically. »
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Richard Feynman
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Richard Feynman
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