The Unrelated Problem of Quantum Theory

If you deliberately keep stuff in the back of your mind as oh this could possibly solve this other thing are you more likely to have research that applies to that? I don't know it might be. When I wrote my first paper which contained a description of what we now call a universal quantum computers I had no idea I was inventing a universal quantum computer. The prevailing view of quantum theory namely wave function collapse and that sort of thing made the issue of testability very obscure. This is still a mystical concept well it's fortunately it's no longer a concept in physics it's not mystical.