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Re: Can humans exhibit wave properties under certain circumstances?

Date: Tue Jun 12 07:35:07 2001
Posted By: Jerrold Franklin, Faculty, Physics, Temple University
Area of science: Physics
ID: 991490308.Ph
Message:

Big objects do not ordinarily exhibit wave properties.
This is because their level of quantum excitation is so large
(of the order of 10^20) that they are composed of a huge number of 
uncorrelated states that exhibit no interference phenomena.
In the case of superconductivity, or for lasers, a large number of 
electrons, or atoms, are in correlated states, and then large objects can 
exhibit quantum like properties. 



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