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Some thoughts on reality and its description, as well as some personal recollections.

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Varadarajan, V.S. (2011). Prologue. In: Reflections on Quanta, Symmetries, and Supersymmetries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0667-0_1

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