Timeline for Is particle superposition reflected in the particle's gravitational footprint?
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| Aug 18 at 14:28 | comment | added | mmesser314 | For a beginner-friendly explanation of decoherence, see this Veritasium video (which gones on to explain Many Worlds) - Parallel Worlds Probably Exist. Here’s Why | |
| May 24, 2019 at 16:45 | comment | added | user4552 | A great blog post about this: backreaction.blogspot.com/2012/01/… | |
| Aug 25, 2016 at 22:32 | vote | accept | Peter Kerr | ||
| Aug 23, 2016 at 5:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhysics/status/767952297372573696 | ||
| Aug 22, 2016 at 18:01 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | Also small things (electrons) have longer wavelengths than big things (cars, people, bacteria). Anything whose wavelength is shorter that it's size is going to act like a particle and not a wave pretty much all the time. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 17:56 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | The problem I think, is that cars, people and even bacteria are already decohered at least 99.9% | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 17:39 | comment | added | tparker | You wouldn't have a separate 200 lbs in each location (unless you weight 400 lbs, that is) - the total effective mass across all the locations would add up to 200 lbs, because the (norm-squared) components of the wave function add up to 1. Quantum superposition can't give you extra mass for free, so it can't explain the missing mass (or extra mass, depending on your perspective) of dark matter. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 13:00 | comment | added | lemon | Some (e.g. Penrose) suspect that wavefunction collapse is a result of space-time not being able to be in a state of superposition. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 12:55 | answer | added | ACuriousMind♦ | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 12:51 | answer | added | user73762 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 12:21 | answer | added | isometry | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 11:25 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 19 | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 8:49 | history | edited | knzhou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2016 at 8:38 | history | asked | Peter Kerr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |