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Why don't we notice energy quantization or particle wavelengths in everyday objects?
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1 of 2Because the energy of a single energy quantum of macroscopic objects is really small compared to macroscopic energies so we don't even notice that the change is occurring in these small increments and appears as changing continuously. Also macroscopic momenta are really large so from De Broglie's relation we see that the wavelength is then really small and thus the wavelike effects are unnoticeable.
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