How Internal Noise Destroys Quantum Magic ⚡ экспресс
Scientists have explained why in everyday life we don't see a quantum mixture of states in large objects (like a chair). It turns out that nature itself, like an invisible conductor, instantly settles the particles into their proper places as soon as such a mixture arises. So quantum laws themselves take care of order — amazing, isn't it?
In a football stadium, the crowd's emotions arise from the chatter of individual fans. If mood could be both joyful and sorrowful at once, you'd have a quantum superposition. But the murmur of thousands of voices instantly forces that blend into a single definite state.
So it is with large objects: their quantum superpositions are destroyed by the internal noise of myriads of particles. This noise, linked to entropy—a measure of disorder—acts like random interference, forcing the uncertainty to collapse as suddenly as a supernova flares in the sky. Physicists have shown that the standard Schrödinger equation handles this without invoking an observer — it all follows from standard quantum theory. Thus the puzzle that tormented Schrödinger, von Neumann, and Born is solved: Born's rule, which predicts probabilities, is derived from first principles. Microscopic chaos itself imposes order on the large-scale world.
🎯 In a mole of any substance, there are more particles than stars in the observable universe — and each one contributes to the noise that kills quantum uncertainty.
🎬 The idea of a cat being both alive and dead has inspired many sci-fi writers, from early short stories to the TV show 'Rick and Morty'.