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durant35
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Hi guys,
just a quick question. This is an idea that came up to my mind while thinking about decoherence and stability of macroscopic objects in the world. As we know all superpositions and interference effects are destroyed in a enormously tiny timescale, and as Mfb mentioned it is meaningless to talk about a quantity that is in superposition in that short time interval. Now this may or may not imply bizzareness, but is it possible that all particles of a cat or a table can be in a superposition of different composition in that tiny instant, for instance a cat that is in a state of being in a normal state with its particles constitued as we see it and a state of let's say its neurons being in its legs, or whatever, just that those particles that make up her body are differently ordered. I hope somebody can clear up this bizzareness and explain. Thank you
just a quick question. This is an idea that came up to my mind while thinking about decoherence and stability of macroscopic objects in the world. As we know all superpositions and interference effects are destroyed in a enormously tiny timescale, and as Mfb mentioned it is meaningless to talk about a quantity that is in superposition in that short time interval. Now this may or may not imply bizzareness, but is it possible that all particles of a cat or a table can be in a superposition of different composition in that tiny instant, for instance a cat that is in a state of being in a normal state with its particles constitued as we see it and a state of let's say its neurons being in its legs, or whatever, just that those particles that make up her body are differently ordered. I hope somebody can clear up this bizzareness and explain. Thank you