On 9/16/2011 9:49, Warp wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
>> But at what point and for what reason wouldn't they apply?
>
>    For the same reason that if you kick footballs towards a wall with
> two slits on it (slightly wider than the football), you don't get a
> diffraction pattern on a wall behind it where the balls hit.

Yes you do. It's just that the diffraction pattern is very, very fine. 
Probably finer than you can actually measure. But theoretically it's there.

However, even if you were correct, that doesn't answer the question. The 
point of S's cat is to show that the answer is not "they don't apply because 
I observed the result."

You're aware of Bose-Einstein condensates, right? And you're aware they've 
actually been made out of elementary particles larger than the entire room 
they're centered in?  Size has little if anything to do with it.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   How come I never get only one kudo?

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