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by dllthomas 4342 days ago
"Nobody knows why we don’t observe these kinds of strange superpositions in the macroscopic world."

Yeah, why can't we observe processes that rely on lack of observation?

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We can observe processes that rely on lack of observation in the microscopic world. Look up the one-slit and two-slit experiments[0]. In the two-slit experiment, we don't observe which slit the photon takes, but we can observe the interference pattern on the screen.

The two-slit experiment works with photons, but not with bullets, or cars, or baseballs.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_slit_experiment

Hmm, probably fair.