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The US national laboratories are a large part of the richest country's resources in research, and are being wasted by mismanagement by the Department of Energy — according to a DoE task force now reporting.
A neat way of talking of quantum and classical physics in the same language will be of interest in itself even if it does not avoid the need for a quantum theory of gravity; but that would be a huge extra.
