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Nature 450, 1167-1168 (20 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/4501167a; Published online 19 December 2007

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Physics: A quantum less quirky

Seth Lloyd1

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What physicists want for Christmas is a solution to the philosophical conundrums of quantum mechanics. They will be disappointed, but work that dissolves one aspect of quantum weirdness is some consolation.

There is a strange quantum-mechanical phenomenon. A brilliant researcher receives a Nobel prize for work on quantum physics, but then expresses scepticism about the validity of the theory.

  1. Seth Lloyd is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
    Email: slloyd@mit.edu

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