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"Quantum mechanics is incomplete right because it doesn't explain the collapse of the wave function." Sir Roger Penrose discusses the missing link between the smooth evolution of the Schrödinger equation and the sudden collapse of the wave function during measurement. Could this "gap" be the key to understanding the...

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