Does Quantum theory mean I might not be completely grown up?

Last month the NY Times published an article which said that the laws of physics, thought to be finalized with the work of Max Planck and others, might be under review again because of strange data that the James Webb telescope was send back to earth. Something about that galaxies that should be older are actually younger than the ones we thought to be younger than the older ones. Or something like that. It was an intriguing idea because so far as I knew, physics had always worked, both here on earth and out in space.

Robert Crease is a philosopher and science historian who teaches at Stony Brook. He was mentioned in the article, so I went out and ordered a book he wrote with a physicist that I understand was quite popular for a while. The Quantum Moment was published in 2012 and is subtitled "How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty."

I'm in the middle of it now, and they write a lot about how scientific discovery are reflected in popular culture. In 1930 talking about uncertainty was in high vogue. Are things here, or there, or neither, or both? A cartoon they reproduce has a ticketseller telling his customers that they can buy tickets for Heisenberg's lecture,

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Embedded in the sidewalk on Main Street is an iron plaque which reads: “Presented by the Ladies Society of Busy Workers 1932.” Although that marker is directly in front of the Amagansett School, it has nothing to do with that building. Instead, the plaque commemorates the very sidewalk itself…and the end of the road for those Ladies.

In 1902 the Ladies Society of Busy Workers—a common name at the time for charitable or civic-minded organizations—filed articles of in-