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[a500lbgorilla]

My question is: what is it that this is? https://www.simonsfoundation.org/qua...antum-physics/

Also, how come they can get press coverage like this and not even have a paper out?

"“Both are hard-wired in the usual way we think about things,” said Nima Arkani-Hamed, a professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and the lead author of the new work, which he is presenting in talks and in a forthcoming paper. “Both are suspect.”"

Unless this is it ---> http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5605