Superpositions of massive objects would be hard to spot on Earth even in well-isolated environments because of the decoherence induced by gravitational time dilation.
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Bassi, A. Wanna be quantum. Nature Phys 11, 626–627 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3390
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