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Nature 433, 257-259 (19 January 2005) | doi:10.1038/433257a;

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A theory of everything?

I have learned from the history of physics that the most spectacular developments usually come when the existing theoretical insights create conflict, when observed phenomena seem to defy logic. This happened when Max Planck investigated a problem in the statistical features of radiation — which led to the foundation of quantum mechanics.

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