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The de Broglie wavelength of a baseball is something like 20 orders of magnitude smaller than a proton. If you imagine this to be something that might be probed
by carbocation 15y ago
The de Broglie wavelength of a baseball is something like 20 orders of magnitude smaller than a proton. If you imagine this to be something that might be probed in the next few centuries, I'd be interested to hear more.
- jessriedel 15y agoI'd be willing to bet (e.g. longbets.org) that objects of size 10^15 amu (which is large enough to be visible to the naked eye) will be interfered in this century. Baseballs are 10 orders of magnitude larger. In any case, the point is that it's not a matter of the slits becoming too small. It's a matter of controlling environmental decoherence.
- carbocation 15y agoAnd this is one of the reasons I love HN. I would be interested in hearing more sometime. For example, if you were to write up a speculative blog post and submit it here...