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My volcano of compress anger was about to erupt in school, and it would take more than five years for my molten lava to be brought under control, which was through the loss of my sight. However, shouldn’t there be a way of detecting and reaching out to kids like me before there is a massive problem? Why wait until there is a devastating eruption before we intervene?
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― The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
― The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

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The very small quantum world, it seems, is a mixture of possibilities. The quantum fields to which all particles belong are the sum of these possibilities and, somehow, one possibility is chosen out of all the existing ones just by seeing it, just by the very act of detecting it, whenever one tries to probe a particle's nature. Nobody knows why or how this happens.
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― The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
― The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond