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As an earthquake has a main shock and secondary shocks, so too a scientific revolution. In this chapter I discuss some of the lesser but still significant tremblers that shook the foundations of physics since 1925 (the principal shock having been identified by Bell in 1964, following clues left by EPR and Bohm). Then, in “Principles,” ignoring Mr. Feynman’s mixed metaphor, we attempt to understand “how it can be like that.”
I think I can safely say that no one understands quantum mechanics ... Do not keep saying to yourself if you can possibly avoid it, ‘But how can it be like that?’ because you will get ‘down the drain’ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that. —Richard Feynman
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Feynman quote: Feynman (1965), p. 129.
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Wick, D. (1995). Paradoxes. In: The Infamous Boundary. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5361-7_16
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