Things by the way this is called superstition are true and therefore believing weird things by the way this is called superstition or magical thinking believing weird things like that is not a bug in the magical thinking believing weird things like that is not a bug in the system its a feature that comes equipped in the software of our program a system its a feature it comes equipped in the software of our programming to try to connect things in the environment just in case theres a real connection to try to connect things in the environment just in case theres a real connection. All right so. Youre saying believe star almost restraint all right so. Heres a believe star almost restraint by common sense just like a writing bit helps to harness an emotional hole by common sense just like a writing bait helps to harness an emotional horse but this horse well you know it still go where and where if it wants but this horse well you know it still go where and where if it once are you saying
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To create kind of a ball of charge. So the model was knowledge in a valid charge. These churches interact with themselves using the photons and if you calculate this using direct theories, which was developed in the 1930s are late 1920s and early 1930s, behaviors ranging their which is like dividing one by zero on a calculator. You didnt answer at infinity. That cant be right because the amount of energy of an electron which if you consider to be a ball of charge cant be infinity. Many different calculations give you an answer of infinity which is very unsatisfying. Its a crazy answer. In order to address this, however radical idea and set the problem youre getting an affinity with these answers could be eliminated if you eliminate the intermediary. You eliminate having a photon or a light particle exchange between the two electrons. We all know that there is like a pair. The play would be produced by the electrons themselves through their mutual interactions, which would take place ov