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Recently, I have heard of extensions of the double slit experiment that propose to use a bacterium as the particle. I've also heard that the double slit experiment, in principle, would still show an interference pattern if it were done with a human or a car, as long as there is no observer.

This made me wonder: if this is true, and I exist in a superposition, do I have a mass which exists in several locations at the same time and with an associated weight of 200lbs in each of my superposition locations?

If that were true and a fact, wouldn't that account for the missing mass which we attribute to dark matter? Also, even if on some other level this is true about particles only, wouldn't this be where we would find a link between quantum mechanics and gravity, linking it with relativity?

Forgive me if this is a silly question as I am almost 63 years old and have been almost 50 years out of school, but I just love to read and think about science and learn as much as I can.

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Hi, I think this is a very interesting and deep question! However, you might want to remove part of the 3rd paragraph, or else some people won't react well to your question. (Especially the people working on quantum gravity...) – knzhou 33 mins ago
    
I also rewrote your question a bit to sharpen it. I think I preserved the idea, but feel free to undo any of my changes if you don't agree with them. – knzhou 32 mins ago

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