Science: Maxwell-Quantum Theory

So darkly complex, so fabulously remote from the familiar things of human existence is science's probing into the fundamental secretae of the universe—of light, electricity, gravity, matter—that the language of physicists is becoming metaphysical. Efforts to fit new discoveries to demonstrable theory, or to perform the converse, simply pile paradox on paradox. While U. S. probers have been mostly content to spin new riddles by unearthing new facts in their laboratories, European physicists have tried more & more of late, by sheer sweat of mind, to coordinate, to reconcile, to reduce...

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