What Terence Tao thinks about quantum mechanics

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1. 14 Jun 2025

   Our readingPhysics will be unified again as it has been before; the obstacle is that relativity and quantum mechanics already explain almost everything we can measure.

   physics

   Their wordsBut I have faith that we've been doing this for centuries and we've made progress before. There's no reason why we should stop.

   ↗Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472youtube.com 3rd of 20 in this recording