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by kipple 4342 days ago
One part I didn't like is towards the beginning the author says: "Nobody knows why we don’t observe these kinds of strange superpositions in the macroscopic world. For some reason, quantum mechanics just doesn’t work on that scale. And therein lies the mystery, one of the greatest in science."

But I thought the reason we dont see macroscopic events exhibiting quantum superposition behavior was because of quanutm decoherence? It's just so hard to get a macroscopic situation that hasnt already been observed and collapsed.

But then the author kinda hints at this point later when he mentions: "Physicists have become increasingly skilled at creating conditions in which ever larger objects demonstrate quantum behaviour."

Am I missing something, or is he blowing the problem (and the impact of Bolotin's computational limit theory) way out of proportion?