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Tony Leggett, “The Problems of Physics, Reconsidered” (Open Agenda, 2021)

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The Foundations of Quanum Theory

i know some people who are concerned about the foundations of quantem theory. But that quantom computing, as it were, is not something which is going to shed any particular light on this. If indeed, as people go to more more entangled states, perhaps more and more microscopic cubits, for example, flux cubits and so forth, if everything still works fine according to the basic prescriptins of quant mechanics then i think we will not have dorne anything. I mean, i'd put us fairly small probabled hem that right now. In that case we'd have learned a lot.

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