"The inner mysteries of quantum mechanics require a willingness to extend one’s mental processes into a strange world of phantom possibilities, endlessly branching into more and more abstruse chains of coupled logical networks, endlessly extending themselves forward and even backwards in time."
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Fellows of the Royal SocietyAcademics from the United KingdomPhysicists from EnglandUniversity of Oxford alumniPhysicists from Australia
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J. C. Ward, Memoirs of a Theoretical Physicist (Optics Journal, Rochester, 2004).
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John Clive Ward
John Clive Ward (1 August 1924 – 6 May 2000) was a British-Australian theoretical physicist known for his contributions to particle physics and renormalization theory.
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