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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This will enable researchers here to move on to their ultimate goal: to find evidence of "new physics", which they believe will lead to a new, more compete theory of sub-atomic physics.

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What sort of questions could he be expected to put to atomic scientists without some grasp of quantum theory?

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Prof Peter Higgs developed a theory of how other sub-atomic particles came to have substance, or mass, and published his work in 1964.

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Einstein's framework for his theory of gravity, for example, is incompatible with quantum theory, which explains how nature works at an atomic and subatomic level.

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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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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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