Max Planck, one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century and considered the father of quantum theory, made the following statement when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics: As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a
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