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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Quantum Mechanic$

Technologies based on quantum mechanics are responsible for 30% of the US's GDP, according to an article in the latest issue of Science.

That's about $4 trillion. Trillion.

(By the way, the article is about how spectacularly successful quantum mechanics is in making quantitative predictions -- and how it is almost certainly conceptually wrong.)

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