The interpretation, which is the most popular explanation of the bizarre quantum world among physicists, suggests that quantum mechanics does not describe the physical world directly but merely talks about probabilities of certain outcomes.

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The best it can do is talk in terms of risk and of probabilities, the likelihood that an event of a certain magnitude might occur at some point in the future.

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