The search for the elusive magnetic monopole has been going on for even longer than they've been looking for the Higgs Boson. It's all very esoteric and exotic physics,...
Alfons O. replied:
Well I got the quote wrong but I was close: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics
Demetrios B. replied:
Speaking of fridge magnets, I do remember these black and white Schnauzers. Well, not the original 1940's ones. But, of the ones that they used to sell in the seventies in novelty shops in Cape Cod. http://www.etsy.com/listing/155058638/vintage-tricky-dogs-magnets-black-ad Moving right along, thanks for sharing this article.
Alfons O. replied:
here is the correct quote: I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. Richard Feynman, in The Character of Physical Law (1965)
Alfons O. replied:
..the "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." Richard Feynman, in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol III, p. 18-9 (1965)
Adam C. replied:
The way Sean Carroll rather brusquely sums up the paradox is via Quantum field theory. He says that an electron or any particle is a field, which permeates all space in the Maxwell sense that at any point in space it has a value. When you make a measurement, the electron is manifest as a particle.