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Brian Swimme

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I think the discovery of nonlocality is touching in on the whole. So that these these seemingly separate events are somehow connected through the whole. ... you have this larger enveloping field and we're, you know, just beginning to understand something about that... so I love that discovery although I don't think we're anywhere near really knowing what we've come upon.

 
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