Rational Quantum Mechanics and the Qubit Ceiling with Tim Palmer

What if the mathematical foundation of quantum mechanics — the infinite continuum of Hilbert space — is subtly wrong, and quantum computers are about to prove it? Tim Palmer, Royal Society Research Professor Emeritus at Oxford and the physicist who revolutionized weather forecasting with ensemble methods, joins Sebastian Hassinger to discuss Rational Quantum Mechanics (RaQM): a new framework published in PNAS in 2026 that predicts Shor's algorithm will fail at a few hundred error-corrected qubits — not for engineering reasons, but because of a fundamental, gravity-induced limit on quantum information itself.