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[By prior agreement, this post will be cross-posted on Microsoft's Q# blog, even though it has nothing to do with the Q# programming language.  It does, however, contain many examples that might be fun to implement in Q#!] Why should Nature have been quantum-mechanical?  It's totally unclear what would count as an answer to such…

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