Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> My personal thought on the matter is 
> 
> Did you ever study this stuff formally? Or are you guessing?
> 
>> conditions, the vibrations introduced by thermal variance, and 
>> possibly other sources of energy, introduce a situation where its no 
>> longer possible for all particles to be in a single state. 
> 
> I'm not even sure what that means, but since I can observe the effects 
> of quantum mechanical superpositions at the macroscopic scale (without 
> even having any sophisticated equipment) I find this an unlikely 
> explanation.
> 
This isn't saying that you can't produce special conditions where the 
general rule is violated, just that, outside those conditions, it does. 
Much like Newton applying in a general sense, relativity in others, and 
there being some cases where that doesn't *quite* apply either, given 
the correct conditions.

And, no, I can't say that I have studied it extensively, but I am not 
guessing either. We know, unless we are seeing things, that every atom 
in a room doesn't spontaneously *leap* to one corner. There has to be a 
reason for it, and the best reason available is that, under normal 
conditions, interactions between particle, weak or otherwise, prevent 
it. This is why you have to create conditions where some of those are 
"not" happening. The question isn't if, but what is doing it, and why 
the macro level states you manage happen at all, when they shouldn't, 
based on observation of everything else. Why can you intentionally 
violate the rules, when normally nothing, including the intent to do 
something, like walking through a wall, which would be a similar 
violation, is normally never happening? Enlighten me. What else, other 
than freeform interaction, without something specifically designed to 
"create" conditions where a violation of the normal rules can happen, 
stops it from happening all the time?

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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