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What Would Happen If Earth and Mars Switched Places?

By George Musser | Jun 9, 2011 05:00 PM | 17

 

 

Last Saturday, at a workshop organized by the Foundation Questions Institute, Nobel laureate physicist Gerard 't Hooft gave a few informal remarks on the deep nature of reality. Searching for an analogy to the symmetries of basic physics, he asked the attendees to imagine what would happen to our solar system if you suddenly swapped Earth and Mars. He went on to discuss his ideas for explaining quantum mechanics, but I couldn't get my mind off his question. What would happen?

 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=what-would-happen-if-earth-and-mars-2011-06-09&WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20110616

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