One example of which the White House is fond is the atomic clock the Pentagon helped Harvard to develop so that scientists could test Einstein's theory of relativity.

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We can understand atomic theory, and we can understand literature and learn about the great works of art and all the great things of culture, but why?

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My desperation is lessened, however, by some of the more quantum physics theory which seems to suggest that, if at a sub-atomic level quarks can be in two places at once, then logically there must be a parallel universe where NZ were 130 all out and we are about to win.

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