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The truth about reality

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Hopes of keeping quantum mechanics 'real' have been dashed by new measurements of neutrons' quantum behaviour. Despite what our classical sensibilities require, the world is indeed fundamentally random.

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Figure 1: Neutron interferometer.

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  1. and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Gregor Weihs is at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada. weihs@iqc.ca,

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Weihs, G. The truth about reality. Nature 445, 723–724 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/445723a

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