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longship

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1. I have to read this more carefully.
Sat Nov 2, 2013, 05:22 PM
Nov 2013

Sounds weird on first reading. This isn't the quantum I studied.

One never knows about these things, though. A caution is advisable. I will leave it to one better informed than most on the issue.

If you think you understand quantum theory, you don't understand quantum theory.

Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), a physicist of some note.


There is plenty of room for new things about quantum theory. The big deal is separating the wheat, Quantum Field Theory, from the chaff, What the Bleep Do We Know?.

Then there's so-called String Theory which resides in the murky middle ground with no outright successes in spite of rather huge efforts by very smart people.

I have become quite skeptical about anybody claiming to have solved the interpretation problems of quantum theory.

R&K

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