Nevertheless, taking all these results together, researchers who still believe the wave function must collapse at macroscopic scales appear to be walking on thin ice.
—
Philipp Strasberg,
Scientific American,
20 Oct. 2026
Atmospheric fluctuations on shorter weekly or daily scales, such as sudden stratospheric warming events, polar vortex disruptions, or shifts in the Arctic Oscillation, can temporarily override the overarching El Niño pattern.
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