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  • Don't Let Yourself Get Tangled Up by These 4 Quantum Mechanics Misconceptions

    11/10/2022 6:54:36 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 33 replies
    sciencealert.com ^ | ALESSANDRO FEDRIZZI & MEHUL MALIK,
    1. A cat can be dead and alive Obviously, a cat is nothing like an individual photon in a controlled lab environment, it is much bigger and more complex. Any coherence that the trillions upon trillions of atoms that make up the cat might have with each other is extremely short-lived. This does not mean that quantum coherence is impossible in biological systems, just that it generally won't apply to big creatures such as cats or a human. 2. Simple analogies can explain entanglement Quantum particles are just mysteriously correlated in ways we can't describe with everyday logic or language...