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Physicists identify overlooked uncertainty in real-world experiments Date: January 15, 2024 Source: Santa Fe Institute Summary: The rules of statistical physics address the uncertainty about the ...

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Our deep-seated discomfort with uncertainty—a discomfort rooted not in just in technology but in our very biology—was vividly demonstrated in a 2017 experiment where London-based researchers ...