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To Observe the Muon Is to Experience Hints of Immortality – WIRED
Attempting to model the universe as precisely as possible is to try to see the one thing that even the strictest atheist agrees is everlasting.
The known universe seemed, briefly, muonstruck. But it took only 12 days for another Italian physicist to throw cold water on the bliss. Carlo Rovelli, a founder of loop quantum gravity theory, which seeks to combine quantum mechanics and general relativity, and the author of Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution, which was published in English in May, wrote in The Guardian, Physicists love to think of themselves as radical.
This self-conception, Rovelli went on, is understandable, especially…
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