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Five physicists discuss the achievements and future of quantum theory

By David Stock

A century since Werner Heisenberg changed the course of physics, five of the world’s leading physicists examine the greatest achievements of quantum mechanics and look forward to the next 100 years, in which experiments might finally answer some of the theory’s biggest mysteries: is gravity quantum? Can classical and quantum physics be unified? And where is all the missing matter in our universe?

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