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Physics is a fascinating adventure between the eye and the mind, between the world of phenomena and the world of ideas. Physicists look at Nature and ask questions to which they try and imagine answers. And the interplay, often the quarrel, between what we observe and what we construct “logically” is always a source of amazement. A discovery is often the seed of creation of new and unthought ideas to explore.
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Actually the figure he proposed was 3.2, but it’s less fun.
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See for instance http://www.understandingnano.com/nanotech-applications.html.
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See for instance https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-are-gw.
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Basdevant, JL. (2016). The Appeal of Physics. In: Lectures on Quantum Mechanics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43479-7_1
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