I was talking to a guy who was a philosopher, and he said, 'But you're just describing the world, you're not explaining it.' And I said, 'Yeah, that's what science is. We describe it. We don't explain it.'
— Richard Feynman Modern

Quantum electrodynamics

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1980s

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Shocking

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3XpA4N2h5g

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