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Tue May-03-11 01:45 AM
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6. For the sake of clarity..

a bowling ball would also decohere too rapidly for this experiment to be feasible, but my point was that, leaving aside the decoherence, there would be many other obstacles to performing double slit on more massive particles.

An electron is quantum coherent for several months, but once you get beyond the molecular scale, decoherence starts to occur within a fraction of a second.

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