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How does our classical world emerge from the counterintuitive principles of quantum theory? Can we even be sure that the world doesn't 'go quantum' when no one is watching? Philip Ball talks to the theorists and experimentalists trying to find out.

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Ball, P. Physics: Quantum all the way. Nature 453, 22–25 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453022a

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