macroscopic

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"There is little doubt now to quantum physicists that Santa is exploiting what we know as 'macroscopic quantum coherence'" says Professor Gool of Trinity College Dublin.

From BBC

On a macroscopic scale, the realm of baseballs and planets, objects tend to have well-defined locations and velocities.

From Salon

The standard answer is that this momentum is simply inherent to subatomic particles, and doesn’t correspond to any macroscopic notion of spinning.

From Scientific American

First, we consider the macroscopic: How well does a person function in the real world?

From Washington Post

Throughout the 19th and much of the 20th century, physicists gained a greater appreciation for complicated microscopic and macroscopic systems full of random motion and disorder.

From Scientific American