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Comment author: Thomas 16 April 2013 11:03:34AM *  2 points [-]

Airplanes flying through the air are an emergent property of quantum mechanics.

Not entirely. The gravity plays its part here. The gravity is not inside the QM.

Comment author: ThrustVectoring 16 April 2013 06:41:29PM 0 points [-]

The sentence is fixed by replacing "quantum mechanics" with "elementary particles and fundamental fields". There isn't a good explanation yet as to how gravity is related to quantum mechanics, but we're pretty sure that they are related.

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