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>From: pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: QM nonsense
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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1992 17:53:12 GMT

In article <66994@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
>
>I wouldn't say that's an assumption--it's an experimental observation!
>We do observe a classical world.
>
Are you aware of _macroscopic_ quantum phenomena? There are situations in which
a quantum state may have _macroscopic_ dimensions (superfluidity, superconduc-
tivity, lasers) and we can directly observe quantum effects.
>-- 
>-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)


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