The idea of an objective real world whose smallest parts exist objectively in the same sense as stones or trees exist, independently of whether or not we observe them... is impossible.
Quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle
Challenging classical realism due to quantum mechanics
1955 (Physics and Philosophy)
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