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My contribution will focus on the following question: Has the discovery of macroscopic quantum phenonomena brought abaut a change in our understanding of nature?
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Baumann, K. (1992). The Schrödinger Function of Macroscopic Systems. In: Götschl, J. (eds) Erwin Schrödinger’s World View. Theory and Decision Library, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2428-7_7
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