Is sunlight through gaps in leaves during an eclipse decohered?

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Example of decoherence?
Is the reason you can make out the shape of the sun and the moon is because the gaps between the leaves cause the light to be photons instead of waves?
 

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I am not sure what phenomenon you are considering, but if it is what I think it is, then you should look up the pinhole effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_(optics)

In any case, there is nothing quantum mechanical taking place here. You can treat the light here as a classical electromagnetic wave.
 
I'm saying it is pinhole + decoherence. There would be more diffraction if it wasn't decohered.
 
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quantuminternet said:
I'm saying it is pinhole + decoherence.

You can say whatever you want, but it doesn't make it true.

DrClaude said:
In any case, there is nothing quantum mechanical taking place here.

This.
 
quantuminternet said:
Is the reason you can make out the shape of the sun and the moon is because the gaps between the leaves cause the light to be photons instead of waves?
No. This is a completely classical phenomenon that as nothing to do with quantum mechanics, photons, or decoherence.

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