As you knock around various corners of science, you capture glimpses of this character. It is a bit like a movie were you find out who is a really important character upon which that plot hinges and others that are just there as colourful sentimental distractions.
Electrons that are millimeters across, that stretch out to thin down and dive through holes. Electrons that sense the order of silicon and are tamed to power our civilization. They bulk up proteins giving them axial joints, splints, chemical centers and antenna. You are a stunning example of biology's mastery of the electron.
I reflect on the gentle life of understanding in a world hell bent on propping up a clumsy fiction of classical particles. They are killing Quantum Physicists. It is a phrase used by Jacklyn Kennedy, about Kennedys that captures the need to size up the evident reality as it is unfolding and get on with life. I must admit I have felt the practicality of this. It is only the impracticality of building science understanding for our supercharged quantum world based on a culture of denial that enshrines Bohr from 1917.
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