macroscopic

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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

"Clearly, it was intended to apply to all organisms," he says, or at the very least all macroscopic lifeforms.

From Salon

Second, the kinds of wormhole-creating processes that scientists had studied rely on effects that could prevent a macroscopic traveler from entering.

From Scientific American

Also on this week’s show, Shlomi Kotler, an assistant professor in the department of applied physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, joins Sarah to discuss the quantum entanglement of macroscopic objects.

From Science Magazine

Both entanglement and back-action evasion have been previously observed in macroscopic systems but in different, and arguably more limited, ways.

From Scientific American