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At some point between the tiny world of particles and atoms and the much larger world we experience every day, quantum behavior appears to fade away.
Quantum mechanics allows particles to exist in combinations of possible states, a phenomenon known as superposition. That strange feature inspired Schrödinger's famous thought experiment involving a cat that is both alive and dead until it is observed. Yet objects in the everyday world do not behave that way.
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