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CATEGORY: Article Discussions [back]
TOPIC: Quantum Upsizing [refresh]

Arjen Dijksman wrote on Oct. 5, 2008 @ 20:08 GMT

"Superposition is another feature that is peculiar to quantum systems. Before a quantum object is measured, it does not have definite characteristics. Instead, it exists in a superposition of multiple mutually contradictory states—allowing it to be in two places at once, for example."

As this is stated, superposition is not a perculiar quantum effect. Any macroscopic object on which there hasn't been any measurement is in fact in a superposition of mutually excluding states, each state being affected a probability term.

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