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Old 10-06-2008, 11:38 AM   #15663 (permalink)
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Consider it done...I'm not waiting any longer. I think my problem was simply caused by quantum wave interference.

But now I'm worried about this and I hope it doesn't have adverse effects on my cheeseburgers:

In quantum particle-wave duality, if the size of an object of momentum p is smaller than its de Broglie wavelength, then quantum wave interference will be measurable enough so that classical physics will fail to be a good description of the object's behavior.
Planck's constant is a very very small number. The de Broglie wavelength of something like a piece of cheese in the fridge would very very tiny. The cheese would have to be subatomic size before quantum cheese effects would take over -- and then it wouldn't be identifiable as cheese any longer.
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