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#115 – David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Theory and Quantum Physics

Quanto mechanics is our best theory of the very small. It underpins most of modern physics, from scales right down to the scale of the higs bows on. In quanto mechanics, if any object can have one or other then it can somehow have both properties at the same time. So i ont i got one particle that's in two places and i scatter another particle off it. Is just one example where we need quanta mechanics to understand how their components work. As was meno newtonian mechanics, the things keep going, they like mounds of other stuff.

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