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Quantum mechanics is often described as weird and strange because it abandons many of the intuitive traits of classical physics. The manyworlds interpretation mwi of quantum mechanics holds that quantum theory our best current theory of physics is correctly understood as claiming that there are many worlds that exist in parallel to our own and which branch constantly off our own. Mit scientists find weird quantum effects, even over. But it also saw the birth of quantum mechanics a description of the world on a subatomic level and unlike many of the other great achievements of the.
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