{"id":3928006,"date":"2026-09-17T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/what-kills-schrodingers-cat-underground-experiment-rules-out-gravity-model-for-quantum-decoherence\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:00:52","slug":"what-kills-schrodingers-cat-underground-experiment-rules-out-gravity-model-for-quantum-decoherence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/what-kills-schrodingers-cat-underground-experiment-rules-out-gravity-model-for-quantum-decoherence\/","title":{"rendered":"What kills Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat? Underground experiment rules out gravity model for quantum decoherence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Somewhere between the microscopic realm of elementary particles and the macroscopic world of human beings, something strange happens: The rules of quantum physics, which work so exquisitely for tiny atoms, seem to lose their grip as objects grow larger. Pondering where and how this shift from small-scale quantum fuzziness to everyday sharp certainty happens gives rise to thought-experiment oddities like Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s famous dead-and-alive cat. The process by which quantum phenomena like superposition\u2014the paradoxical affliction of Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat\u2014fade into the classical reality we experience is known as decoherence.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-schrdinger-cat-underground-gravity-quantum.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere between the microscopic realm of elementary particles and the macroscopic world of human beings, something strange happens: The rules of quantum physics, which work so exquisitely for tiny atoms, seem to lose their grip as objects grow larger. Pondering where and how this shift from small-scale quantum fuzziness to everyday sharp certainty happens gives [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}