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Schrödinger's kittens enter the classical world - 11-24-2007, 02:15 PM

This is quite an interesting article that I found in nature news online today. In it, scientists argue that the reason we do not observe quantum effects is not because the quantum effects only take place on a small scale, but because we do not have accurate enough measuring instruments in order to see them.

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Johannes Kofler and Časlav Brukner of the University of Vienna and the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, also in Vienna, say that the emergence of the 'classical' laws of physics, deduced by the likes of Galileo and Newton, from quantum rules happens not as objects get bigger, but because of the ways we measure these objects1. If we could make every measurement with as much precision as we liked, there would be no classical world at all, they say.


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