What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

by Adam Becker

mundane things are composed of a galaxy of the unfamiliar. Your house keys are a temporary alliance of a trillion trillion atoms, each forged in a dying star eons ago, each falling to Earth in its earliest days. They have bathed in the light of a violent young sun. They have witnessed the entire history of life on our planet. Atoms are epic.

our beliefs about the world can only be tested against the world as a group, not individually, and this holds for falsification just as much as for verification. No theory, in isolation, is falsifiable.