Possible and Impossible

About the possible and the impossible

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- Lord Kelvin, 1895. In 1903, the first flight of the Wright brothers took place.





But perhaps in the 20th century, people have become much smarter and more careful in their assessments? No matter how it is!





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- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923. Nuclear weapons were first tested on July 16, 1945 in the United States at the Trinity test site (New Mexico). On June 27, 1954, the world's first nuclear power plant was launched in the USSR.





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David Deutsch, “The Structure of Reality. Science of Parallel Universes "





David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity. Explanations that change the world "








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