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"Therefore, in order to validate quantum computers, methods are needed to compare theory and result without waiting years for a supercomputer to perform the same task."

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This is the sort of observation that makes Ms. Ypi, a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, unpopular with many present-day Albanians.

If these galaxies truly packed hundreds of billions of solar masses worth of stars less than a billion years after the Big Bang, it would challenge basic theories of how galaxies form.

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However, theory suggests that when two WIMPs collide, they annihilate each other and release energetic particles, including gamma ray photons.

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Take, for example, Kennedy’s staunch rejection of germ theory in favor of “miasma theory.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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