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'''Struck with blindness''' is how most modern English translations interpret {{bibleref|Genesis|19|11}}, when [[angel]]s made it impossible for evildoers in [[Sodom]] to find the doorknob on [[Lot]]'s home.  They wore themselves out trying.
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'''Struck with blindness''' is how most modern English translations interpret {{bibleref|Genesis|19|11}}, when [[angel]]s made it impossible for evildoers in [[Sodom]] to find the doorknob on [[Lot]]'s home.  They wore themselves out trying. (The [[King James Version]] uses the phrase "smote ... with blindness."<ref>{{bibleref|Genesis|19|11|version=KJV}}.</ref>
    
But blindness dies not make it impossible to find and open a door, or wear themselves out trying.  Moreover, the [[Hebrew]] term used is a rare one,
 
But blindness dies not make it impossible to find and open a door, or wear themselves out trying.  Moreover, the [[Hebrew]] term used is a rare one,
    
A more precise translation benefiting from modern [[quantum mechanics]] would be that the Sodom evildoers were deprived of their awareness, their full consciousness needed to eliminate quantum [[uncertainty]] about the location of the doorknob.  They can try forever but without being able to collapse the wave function of the door it never has a certain location for them.
 
A more precise translation benefiting from modern [[quantum mechanics]] would be that the Sodom evildoers were deprived of their awareness, their full consciousness needed to eliminate quantum [[uncertainty]] about the location of the doorknob.  They can try forever but without being able to collapse the wave function of the door it never has a certain location for them.
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