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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/22/MNGNG538O752.DTL

Spooky subatomic behavior seen on grander scale

Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science

Eight decades after one of the weirdest discoveries in the history of science -- that subatomic matter is wavelike -- Austrian scientists are studying the same phenomenon on a much bigger scale, in giant molecules of carbon.

Such research is more dramatic evidence that the spooky phenomena of quantum physics aren't confined to the infinitesimally tiny world within the atom. In fact, quantum effects influence objects much, much bigger than atoms, possibly even important molecules in the human body.


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