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Modern physics has transformed our understanding of reality, but it has also left us with some deeply intriguing questions. At the smallest scales to the greatest extremes, the Universe behaves in ways that seem to defy common sense. Particles appear to influence one another instantly across impossibly vast distances, empty space refuses to stay empty, time itself can flow at different rates and perfectly deterministic systems can become impossible to predict.
Despite their logical, or perhaps intuitive, incongruities, they are supported by some of the most successful theories and experiments ever devised. Yet they continue to challenge our deepest intuitions about how reality ought to work. Modern physics is replete with counter-intuitive mechanisms that push at the boundaries of logic and redefine how we see the Universe…here are just five of them. Read the rest at Philosophical Magazine Comments are closed.
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