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Re:Economists made a model of the U.S. economy. Our debt cra... by krapp on Thursday July 17, 2025 @10:28PM (#44600600)
We have technology that only works because quantum physics is a thing. Lasers, LEDs (particularly blue LEDs), GPS and MRIs and semiconductors are some examples. Computer chips are getting small enough that quantum tunneling is a real engineering concern. Quantum entanglement has been experimentally verified numerous times.

Calling it "wholely unscientific" makes you seem like a crank.

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Re:Economists made a model of the U.S. economy. Our debt cra... by _heimdall on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:34AM (#44603548)
We have technologies that work, and we believe that quantum theory plays a part. We don't know that and we simply can't given that (a) its a theory and (b) it is untestable as I said earlier.

How would you propose we could test quantum state and collapse to validate that the concept is actually correct?

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