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by macspoofing 2111 days ago
>Gravity was never a leading explanation for collapse; it was always a fringe idea.

Why not? Gravity is (probably) mediated by a particle, and therefore all matter will interact with all other matter ... so why shouldn't gravity therefore cause a collapse?

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(Nobody is sure about the graviton, but IMHO it is a good bet.)

Electromagnetism is also mediated by particles (photons) and the quantum states can survive a lot of electromagnetic interactions without collapsing. One of my favorites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach_experime...

My second sentence?