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Size Is Absolute
THE FUNDAMENTAL NATURE OF SIZE is central to understanding the differences between the aspects of the everyday world that fit into our intuitive view of nature and the world of quantum phenomena, which is also manifested all around us. We have a good feel for the motion of baseballs, but we mainly gloss over our lack of knowledge of what gives things different colors or why the heating element in an electric stove gets hot and glows red. The motion of baseballs can be described with classical mechanics, but color and electrical heating are quantum phenomena. The differences between classical and quantum phenomena depend on the definition of size.
The quantum mechanical concept of size is the correct view, and it is different ...
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