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The Story of Everything

Meditations

Quantum mechanics is the study of how all matter exists simultaneously as a wave and a particle. Werner Heisenberg made an important breakthrough in this field with his uncertainty principle, which states that one cannot simultaneously determine the position and velocity of a particle. In their search for transcendence, Tibetan monks supplement their meditations by drawing multitudes of arrows in such a way that no two share the same orientation.