2 If, for example, a new, more fundamental level of particles is someday, somehow discovered, and if by some presently unimaginable technique we are able to manipulate them to detect the properties of electrons without measurable disruption, quantum indeterminacy may be transformed from an alleged fact of nature to a relic of obsolete technology.
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A former visitant of UC Santa Cruz, former union boilermaker, ex-Marine, Vietnam vet, anti-war activist, dilettante in science with an earth-shaking theory on the nature of light (which no one will consider), philosopher in the tradition of Schelling, Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, Marx, and Fromm (sigh, no one listens to me on that either), author of a book on wine clubs (ahem), and cast-off programmer of ancient computer languages.
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