macroscopic
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In the words of the committee, "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit".
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025
Researchers from the University of Rochester have uncovered compelling evidence that Earth's magnetic field was in a highly unusual state when the macroscopic animals of the Ediacaran Period diversified and thrived.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2024
That means the puddle has more entropy than the crystals, and the system evolves to the macroscopic state with the greatest entropy.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024
Entropy is essentially the number of such microstates consistent with the same macroscopic variables, he deduced.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024
Darwin’s question was macroscopic: How do organisms transmute information about their features over a thousand generations?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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