MERLIN SCIENCE — Quantum Coherence Scales with Mass, Not Geometry: No Macroscopic Telep — E8 Intelligence Research

The finding in one clean sentence: macroscopic quantum tunneling and levitated nanoparticle superpositions confirm that quantum coherence scales with mass, not geometry, and there is no evidence for macroscopic teleportation—only probabilistic state transfer. Let me put this in field context. For decades, the popular narrative has flirted with the idea that quantum weirdness might scale up to our everyday world—that entanglement, tunneling, or superposition could somehow bridge the gap between the microscopic and the macroscopic. This work tests that directly. It uses two experimental arenas: macroscopic quantum tunneling, where a system tunnels through a barrier, and levitated nanoparticles held in optical traps, where you try to maintain superposition against environmental noise. The mechanism is straightforward, and you can evaluate it yourself. Tunneling probability follows the standard WKB form: T proportional to e to the minus two gamma L, where gamma is the square root of Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com