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AMA | February 2023

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

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Quantum Optical Observation - Is There an Example of a Quantum Event That Does Matter?

There's a pretty good classical approximation to quantum mechanics. We can think about the world in which we live macroscopically as obeying the rules of classical mechanics plus maybe some random tiny events. The answer is it depends and I actually am not going to be able to give you any or many quantitative insight here, but let me tell you how to think about these issues.

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