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Old 31-December-2008, 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip View Post
Quantum mechanics is the same, we primarily want to find out the nature of reality, and any use the knowledge may have is secondary.
The primary goal of QM is to be a predictive mathematical model, to be able to predict how things work, not to find out the nature of reality.
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