Acknowledgements

This week was written by Uwe Grimm. The course is adapted from the book What We Cannot Know by Marcus du Sautoy.

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Figure 1:

(a) Albert Einstein (1879–1955): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_(Nobel).png;

(b) Robert Millikan (1868–1953),: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Andrews_Millikan_1920s.jpg

Figures 2 and 3: Diagram of a wave (not labelled and labelled): NOAA U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Figure 4: Animation of a sonic boom: Jacopo Bertolotti/Creative Commons CC0 1.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sonicboom_animation.gif

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Figure 9: A half-life simulation: Sbyrnes321: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halflife-sim.gif

Figure 10: Casimir effect: Emok: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casimir_plates.svg

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