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Quantum Decoherence: Why the Quantum World Looks Classical
Nothing in quantum mechanics forbids a cat from being alive and dead at once. Superposition has no size limit written into the theory, and yet nobody has ever seen a…
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The vacuum is not empty. It is extremely busy.
Empty space has energy, structure, and consequences you can measure in a laboratory to twelve decimal places. Here is what the quantum vacuum does, what "virtual particles" actually mean, and…
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