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[โ€“] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In fairness sometimes small tiny differences like that do turn out to be significant. But measurement error usually wins out most of the time

[โ€“] niktemadur@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Then there's things like:
"Passing through the magnetic field, exactly half the electrons went UP, and exactly half the electrons went DOWN", and classical physics went OUT through the quantum window.