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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do it. You’d scramble the message ...

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Yank one into the realm of feasibility and the whole NP edifice collapses, and a scientific revolution rises from the rubble, ...

For example: physics traditionally tells us that all particles can be classified into one of two types, either bosons or ...

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