Jonathan Halliwell explains how quantum decoherence is key to understanding how we transition from a world with a wave-like nature of matter and energy to the classical macroscopic world that we’re used to.

  • spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app
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    2 days ago

    We do see relativistic and quantum effects at macro scales. Not necessarily day to day, but many experiments have shown it’s quite a blurry line between quantum states and ‘normal’ states.

    From things like Bose-Einstein condensates having quantum properties across the entire mass, and experiments showing that electrons and even things as big as protons still can exhibit wave-like properties, amongst many other phenomenon, it’s blatantly obvious there is no hard line.

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      2 days ago

      even things as big as protons still can exhibit wave-like properties

      I think there was some publication showing wave-like interference by performing the double-slit experiments with fullerenes, so molecules of about 60 carbon atoms.