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n. - The placement of one thing on top of another;

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  • If a cat's life was directly tied to a quantum effect in superposition, would the cat be both alive and dead at the same time?
  • There is no mystery as to how the photon can be in superposition in both space and time if 4D spacetime is considered really real.
  • A simple way to understand this is that the simple meaning of the word superposition is the placement of one thing on top of another.
  • A simple superposition is not possible, because the knowledge of the weight in the equation of every single factor is unknown to man.
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