Near death, explained

[Speck Tater]

72. Well alrighty then.

I'm so glad you were able to define the boundary Schoedinger was unable to pinpoint. It's such a comfort to know that quantum effects do not exist on the macroscopic level.

Oh, but what about this article from Physics World back in 2003? http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2003/sep/03/entanglement-goes-macroscopic

Macroscopic entanglement is a fact of life. And don't forget that the very computer you are reading this on depends on quantum tunneling for it's very existence. Check this too: http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20090427224525data_trunc_sys.shtml or just Google Macroscopic Quantum

You see, here's the thing. Science depends on divide and conquer. The world must be partitioned into artificial pigeon holes in order for science to work. What we call "simplifying assumptions" are made constantly by scientists. Without those simplifying assumptions science could not even be done. One of those simplifying assumptions is "Quantum effects don't matter at the macroscopic scale." Of course that's nonsense, and no physicist in his right mind really means for that to be taken as the literal truth. It is a simplifying assumption that makes it possible to say "For practical purposes we can ignore quantum effects when we compute the orbits of the planets or the trajectories of falling bricks."

This does NOT mean that the wave function of the solar system does not exist, or that it has "no" effect. That is the naive science groupie's version of the state of affairs. The entire solar system, the entire Milky Way galaxy, the entire universe, has a quantum wave function. And that wave function appears to be more than just an abstraction: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/the-insanely-weird-quantum-wave-function-might-be-real-after-all.ars

There are two problems connected with the common perception of QM. The first is that "QM explains paranormal phenomena." This is utter nonsense! It does no such thing. (And crackpots like Depak would serve us better by keeping their mouths shut.) The second is that "quantum weirdness doesn't really matter in the real world." This is also utter nonsense. To quote somebody whose name I don't recall just off hand: "The universe is stranger than we know, and possibly stranger than we can know."

So while I appreciate your effort to "debunk" reality, and your effort to associate me with charlatans like Depak, the problem is that while you have avoided the one extreme of dogma, you've let yourself be hoodwinked by the opposite extreme.