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Why can't large objects be in two places at once? ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Nature abhors macroscopic superpositions"
· Filippus S. Roux
arXiv:2603.01811 · 2026-03-02 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · Quantum Physics
Scientists have found that self-gravity prevents large bodies from being in two states at once.
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A heavy ball can't be on two chairs at once: its mass so warps space that an energy well appears, preventing splitting. This explains why big things don't follow quantum rules, and perhaps gravity itself 'chooses' reality.

🎯 Even a speck of dust weighing a millionth of a gram loses its ability to be in two places faster than you can sneeze.

🎬 In Greg Egan's novel 'Quarantine', quantum states control consciousness, but gravity sets a hard limit on such fantasies.

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Stephen HawkingJacob BekensteinAlbert EinsteinFritz ZwickyVera RubinBernhard Riemann
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spacetime curvature black hole gravitational waves
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Hawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equationsequivalence principleno-hair theorem
Original: arXiv:2603.01811 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds