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Tipping the quantum scales
INSPIRED by reports of experiments that show ever-bigger objects demonstrating quantum properties, Andrew Scott would like to propose some further research. The largest object that Feedback is aware of having gone through two points “at once” is a “buckyball”, the near-spherical carbon-based molecule that is just visible under a microscope (8 May 2010, p 37).
Andrew is “wondering what would happen if we tried to narrow down the size range for quantum effects”, working down from larger objects. He suggests that “we could…
