What's the nature of Reality: lumpy or smooth?
Concerning the answer to that question, some cosmologists have big toes; some have fat guts.
String theorists get all tied up in knots about it.
M-theorists haven’t got the branes to decide.
Relativists absolutely understand the gravity of the situation.
Light is discreet — she is made of particles, photons. No, Light is continuous — she comes in waves.
Reality is discreet: she keeps her secrets safe.
No, Reality is continuous: she has no gaps or overlaps.
Reality is smoompy, no, smumpy, no, looth.
1927 Solvay International Conference: physicists meet to discuss quantum theory.
(back row L to R) A. Piccard, E. Henriot, P. Ehrenfest, E. Herzen, Th. de Donder, E. Schrödinger, J.E. Verschaffelt, W. Pauli, W. Heisenberg, R.H. Fowler, L. Brillouin;
P. Debye, M. Knudsen, W.L. Bragg, H.A. Kramers, P.A.M. Dirac, A.H. Compton, L. de Broglie, M. Born, N. Bohr;
(Front row) I. Langmuir, M. Planck, M. Skłodowska-Curie, H.A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, P. Langevin, Ch.-E. Guye, C.T.R. Wilson, O.W. Richardson. The only woman is Marie Curie (front, 3rd from left).
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