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Mar 2024
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#57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Re...

Alex J O'Connor
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David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. (Wikipedia.)

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