One of my strongest stylistic prejudices in science is that many of the facts Nature confronts us with are so implausible given the simplicities of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, that the mere demonstration of a reasonable mechanism leaves no doubt of the correct explanation.
I'm having a bit of trouble parsing this... an "implausible fact that nature presents us with" like what? And when the author speaks of a "reasonable mechanism" do they mean a reasonable hand-wavy reduction to QM, or a reasonable mechanism in the language of the special science being discussed?
All of this being a long way of saying, an example would help.
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