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by pdonis 822 days ago
> The action of placing them, say with your hands for simplicity, into different horizontal positions means differently pushing the Earth with your legs.

This might change the momentum, but not the energy if the heights are the same. But if your point is that there will always be some difference in a conserved quantity, yes, that's a fair point.

But it also means that there will always be some difference in the spacetime geometry. None of the other factors you talk about would eliminate the "superposition gap", because none of them cancel out any changes in the spacetime geometry; they just add more changes to it.

> average-able out on larger scales

But if you don't have a theory that can represent the variations you're going to average out, you can't do the averaging. That's the problem: classical GR cannot represent "variation in spacetime geometry" at all. It can only represent one spacetime geometry. It can't represent a superposition of them, not even to do an average.