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Quantum Quasi-Paradoxes And Quantum Sorites Paradoxes, Florentin Smarandache Jan 2005

Quantum Quasi-Paradoxes And Quantum Sorites Paradoxes, Florentin Smarandache

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There can be generated many paradoxes or quasi-paradoxes that may occur from the combination of quantum and non-quantum worlds in physics. Even the passage from the micro-cosmos to the macro-cosmos, and reciprocally, can generate unsolved questions or counter-intuitive ideas. We define a quasi-paradox as a statement which has a prima facie self-contradictory support or an explicit contradiction, but which is not completely proven as a paradox. We present herein four elementary quantum quasi-paradoxes and their corresponding quantum Sorites paradoxes, which form a class of quantum quasi-paradoxes.