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Quantum entanglement is when two particles are far apart, and yet somehow remain in contact with each other. Even Einstein hated this idea. He called it Spooky Action at a Distance.
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Quantum biology is still in its infancy. It's still speculative. But I believe it's built on solid science.
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Sound always has time embedded in it.
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Richard Feynman compared the accuracy of quantum theories, experimental predictions, to specifying the width of North America to within one hair's breadth of accuracy.
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Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things, like crystals and rocks, are really almost entirely composed of empty space.
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General relativity is unquestionably Einstein's masterpiece, a theory which reveals the workings of the universe at the grandest scales, capturing in one beautiful line of algebra everything from why apples fall from trees to the beginning of time and space.
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Quantum mechanics, a mind meltingly strange yet stunningly successful new way of understanding the microworld, the world of atoms and particles.
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But when we look around us, we see we live in a universe full of interesting stuff, full of stars, planets, trees, squirrels. The question is, ultimately, why does all this interesting stuff exist?
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Steve Grand points out that you and I are, ourselves, more like a wave than a permanent thing.
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The Higgs field gives mass to the fundamental particles that we're made from. If it wasn't there, those particles would have no mass, and no atoms could form and there would be no us.
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