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Physicists Discover How Fundamental Particles Lose Track of Quantum Mechanical Properties
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3-13-2008 5:52 PM
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3-13-2008
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Try to imagine a world, where Quantum behaviour was normal at our level. Just like a bad LSD trip I would think.
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