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The speaker believes laboratories would still be necessary even with perfect DFT, because a computer cannot represent 10^23 atoms.
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“And then, even if we had perfect DFT, I still think we'd need a lab.”
“Because even if you're perfect DFT, we cannot fit ten to the twenty three atoms in the computer.”33:52Report a misattribution
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