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		davidmurdoch on Aug 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: High-temperature Gibbs states are unentangled and ... Not being snarky, but when would "new physics" just became a "theory"? These ideas aren't all that new.

Vecr on Aug 29, 2024 [–]

I didn't say they can't be theories. I don't think Penrose ever got that far though. There theoretically were some measurements that would distinguish the idea, but since it was attached to quantum gravity the math was never worked out.

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