Father Spitzer, a professor at Seattle University in Washington, said the laws of physics have all been rewritten in this century because of new discoveries. Scientists once thought the universe was infinite in mass and time. Now they know it is limited, and have even calculated the actual mass of the universe. Physicists have also discarded the old idea of an atom, with its electrons spinning around a proton, because they have discovered that particles simply don't behave in neat ways. Some even appear to anticipate what the experimenter wants, and perform to expectations.
Science still has no adequate explanation for why that happens.
Scientists once said the laws of nature were immutable, and that miracles can't happen. The whole idea that miracles are impossible is gone. Now there's plenty of room in science for the possibility of miracles. Father Spitzer said that social scientists still haven't caught up to the implications of these changes in quantum physics. If a particle is no longer predictable in its movement, then it's obviously impossible to reduce such complex phenomena as love, and the appreciation of art and music to simple psychological laws, he said.