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Dirac could perhaps solve a chain of one-dimensional hydrogen atoms, but not a system involving nitrogen interacting with oxygen, which he regarded as chemistry.

Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 🔬 Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026

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“he could maybe solve like a chain of one D_ hydrogen atoms. But then he cannot currently solve say nitrogen interacting with oxygen. But that's okay, that's just chemistry.”
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