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Physics: Quantum quest

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Physicists have spent a century puzzling over the paradoxes of quantum theory. Now a few of them are trying to reinvent it.

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Ball, P. Physics: Quantum quest. Nature 501, 154–156 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/501154a

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