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Can we guess the shape of theories yet to come? History dampens our expectations, with quantum mechanics itself throwing the coldest water. But indulging in some harmless speculations can be entertaining and may help clarify some issues. Before the free-associating begins, however, there are some needed preliminaries, which will make this chapter a bit of a hodge-podge. First, a tighter focus on material from previous chapters about determinism and locality will be useful. Then we require a few additional points about quantum mechanics which did not fit conveniently into the historical narrative. Finally we come to the shameless speculating.
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Wick, D. (1995). Speculations. In: The Infamous Boundary. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5361-7_20
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