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Shut up and calculate∗ Max Tegmark Dept. of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 I advocate an extreme “shut-up-and-calculate” approach to physics, where our external physical reality is assumed to be purely mathematical. This brief essay motivates…

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