Decoherence is so universal that once you start looking at anything much bigger than an atom, the weirdness starts disappearing. That’s why quantum computers and similar experiments are so hard to pull off. The high level of isolation or extreme cold required to demonstrate quantum behavior is exceedingly difficult to maintain. By the time you start dealing with macroscale objects with millions to quintillions of atoms, all interacting in some way, any quantum behavior is long gone, replaced by more classical Newtonian mechanics. The objects of everyday life are essentially decoherence
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