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“It has always seemed to me that the hard thing to understand is not quantum mechanics, but where classical mechanics comes from (in the sense of how it emerges from a “measurement”).”

Peter Woit

Not Even Wrong (blog)

“We have an incredibly successful theory called the Standard Model. … It still leaves open several questions.”

Peter Woit

[Big Think Interview with Peter Woit, 23 April 2012, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnWjZCS9YVY] (See Big Think.)

“The standard model is just too good. It's too hard to find an experimental result that disagrees with it, and too hard to come up with theoretical advances that will address some of the things it leaves unexplained.”

Peter Woit

[Peter Woit, w:Peter Woit, The Trouble with Physics, Not Even Wrong, math.columbia.edu, http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=451, 28 August 2006]
Not Even Wrong (blog)

“How did particle physics get itself into its current state where some of its most prominent practioners question whether their colleagues have given up on science?”

Peter Woit

p. 4 https://books.google.com/books/about/Not_Even_Wrong.html?id=pcJA3i0xKAUC&pg=PA4
Not Even Wrong (book, 2006)

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