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Re:Breakthrough in the quantum transfer of information betwe... by mablap on Sunday November 13, 2016 @01:07AM (#12942107)
Meh, I could also ask you to provide evidence that you're not a p-zombie... There's an undivisible thing (particle) that has undivisible charge (electron) which exhibits properties and behaviour that could not be explained clasically. How do you explain classically (i.e. Newton's laws and no limits on observables uncertainty) electron diffraction and discretized spin?
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Re:Breakthrough in the quantum transfer of information betwe... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Sunday November 13, 2016 @08:27AM (#12943196)
> How do you explain classically (i.e. Newton's laws and no limits on observables uncertainty) electron diffraction and discretized spin

Now you're changing the question :)

My original point in this was that hacker news poster "powertower" asked for evidence about an electron's properties outside of QM, and I objected to this question because once you leave QM you're in a different kind of universe.

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