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Question then is: why does scaling up from quantum become like the macroscopic world?

Just as scaling up from bits and NAND gates can become like virtual reality.




Bell curves. When you look at the distributions, it becomes pretty clear that as you add lots of particles you approach classical physics pretty quickly, because the likelyhood of the average behavior to differ from the expected behavior falls towards zero very fast.


It takes a degree (or equivalent effort) to understand everything on the path from NAND to VR; It looks like a similar amount of effort is needed to fully understand going from QM to macroscopic — though even that much is a guess on my part, as my QM knowledge is PBS Space Time videos on YouTube and some of the Brilliant.org courses.




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