Zurek at his best

Created on November 15, 2025

2025   ·   quantum   experience   information   preferred-basis   decoherence   ·   polemics

“The brutally honest answer is, ‘I don’t know.’”

“Not quite to my own satisfaction.”

These are quotes from Zurek’s chapter in the book Conceptual Problems of Quantum Gravity – I get the sense that these are probably the best I could ever read from him.



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