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A participatory view of science resolves quantum paradoxes and finds room in classical physics for 'the Now', says N. David Mermin.

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  1. N. David Mermin is emeritus professor in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. He started to take QBism seriously while at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa.,

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Mermin, N. Physics: QBism puts the scientist back into science. Nature 507, 421–423 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/507421a

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