• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    In fairness sometimes small tiny differences like that do turn out to be significant. But measurement error usually wins out most of the time

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      3 months ago

      Then there’s things like:
      “Passing through the magnetic field, exactly half the electrons went UP, and exactly half the electrons went DOWN”, and classical physics went OUT through the quantum window.