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    Challenges→Determinism fails for nonlinear chaotic systems because quantum mechanical uncertainty influences macroscopic systems exhibiting sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

    The quantum-to-classical transition via decoherence shows that macroscopic chaotic systems are effectively described by classical equations where quantum fluctuations are suppressed, not amplified.

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    Chaotic systems(as used in mathematics and physics)
    Systems that appear random and unpredictable even though they follow fixed rules, because they're so sensitive to starting conditions.
    Classical (classical physics/classical mechanics)(as used in physics)
    The everyday physics of objects we can see and touch, based on Newton's laws—the way the world appears to work at human scale before quantum mechanics was discovered.
    Macroscopic(as used in physics and science)
    Large enough to see and measure with your eyes or normal instruments, as opposed to tiny atomic or subatomic scales.
    Quantum fluctuations(as used in physics and quantum mechanics)
    Tiny, random changes in energy and particles that happen at the smallest scales of matter and are a basic feature of how the quantum world works.

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    decoherence(Used to describe why macroscopic superpositions are not directly observed, and assessed here for whether it resolves the measurement problem.)
    A quantum mechanical process in which differently localised states of a measuring apparatus couple to different states of the surrounding environment, entangling the composite system and suppressing interference between branches.
    quantum(Grosseteste's account of how extended bodies arise from simples)
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