The Importance of Learning Quantum Mechanics

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"What I call the textbook approach to quantum mechanics is completely inadequate as a fundamental theory of nature," he says. "It's fine for that ... but it won't help you solve the hydrogen atom or something like that." He adds: "I'm not going to be pushing people on many worlds or anything like that" The book will have an appendix where he talks about some of the different possibilities.

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