Doug_S. comments on Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Doug_S. 08 May 2008 08:15:40PM 0 points [-]

Roger Penrose predicts that attempts to create macroscale quantum superposition will fail because gravity will keep things with too much energy from being in two places at once. He's a bit of a crackpot when it comes to quantum gravity, but it'll be interesting to see him proven wrong. ;)

(Similarly, the occasional crackpot theory suggests that the "fair sampling assumption" of EPR tests should be _systematically_ violated, and that our ability to make "better photon detectors" should hit a limit.)