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The Wayward Word Press | by daveshields | Thu, May 21
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I left the lecture hall at noon just KNOWING quantum mechanics. But as I began the journey down the Olive Walk to my job as a waiter at the Caltech Faculty Club I felt the edifice — like the Tower of Babel — start to tumble.
But at least — if only for a few minutes — I did understand quantum mechanics. I...
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