Conal Elliott

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It is now clear why big things tend to show up in one place or another, but not both. Pebbles, people, and planets are constantly interacting with their surroundings. Each interaction with an electron, a molecule of air, a particle of light tends to localize a system. Big things interact with lots of little things, each of which gets information about the location of the big thing. As a result, big things tend to appear here or there instead of here and there at the same time.
Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
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