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#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong

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The Potential Quantum Computers Simulating Quantum Mechanical Systems

Machine learning or great sort of data science methodologies that process that data will not reveal any major like shift to not understanding of the underlying physics you think i don't think. 20 years and like um maybe machine learning or greatsort of data science methods won't reveal any major shifts in how we look at things. What do you think about the potential quantum computers simulating quantum mechanical systems? We have no good way to calculate even though we can write down the theory we don't know how to calculate anything with any accuracy in it, he says.

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