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59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Importance of Quantum Mechanics
By the 1940s, people were working on other things, such as the Manhattan Project. And physicists in particular had other things to worry about. So rather than worrying about the foundations of quantum mechanics, this influx of money was used for applied physics. You know, there was a lot of really, really great science done in that period.
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