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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Quan Mechanics - Is There a Simple Explanation?

Is there a simple explanation for why we don't observe all this weird quantumness in our everyday life? You did the coin flip example, but then you were quick to say, not with real coins, of course, with cubits. So why not? If the real world quite a mechanical, why don't we observe all these things? Yes. I mean, i think a good example is perhaps the heisenberg uncertainty principle that i mentioned. A but for a sort of a microscopic objects that we encounter in our everyday lives, those uncertainties are tiny compared to what we can see with our eye. And again, when you do experiments, you often really deal first hand, or even

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