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> I think that qm summarized in one sentence is the no-cloning theorem

The no-cloning theorem isn't unique to quantum mechanics. As with many quantum paradoxes, you can translate it into an equivalent statistical paradox. The classical version of the no-cloning theorem is the statement that there's no operation that transforms one sample from a Bernoulli distribution with unknown parameter p into two independent samples from that distribution.

Since there's classical no-cloning, it's a very bad idea to define quantum mechanics as that-thing-with-a-no-cloning-theorem. That definition isn't able to distinguish quantum mechanics from statistics.




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