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Anonymous Wed Sep 21 18:14:59 2016 No.8361603 [Reply] [Original]

What is the precise point when quantum mechanics becomes Newtonian mechanics?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 18:16:49 2016 No.8361607 >>8361603 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 18:17:50 2016 No.8361611 >>8361603 When you're not dealing directly with fermions and bosons.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 18:25:41 2016 No.8361627 >>8361603 there isnt one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_wave fuck off, gorrillaposter

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 22:24:32 2016 No.8362104 >>8361603 [math]\color{green}{\text{>Precise}}[/math]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 22:28:39 2016 No.8362113 >>8361603 Newtonian mechanics isnt real, it just works well enough above certain scales to be useful

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 23:26:16 2016 No.8362228 >>8361603 8.313314561429195871983057*10^-7 meters. Exactly, precisely. The transition is discrete and sudden, too.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 23:29:47 2016 No.8362240 >>8361603 Dumb gorilla poster

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 21 23:41:00 2016 No.8362269 File: 686 KB, 634x875, 1473019353341.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8362228 [citation needed]