What is the biggest body that shows quantum behaviour? An atom? All of them or are there ones that don't act in a quantum manner because of their size?
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Though it is not currently feasible to test objects of arbitrarily large size in (for example) a double slit experiment, the larger and larger we get we still see quantum mechanical effects. It seems unlikely (and, in my and many physicists' view unphysical) for there to ever be a cutoff where those effects just stop happening completely. If physicists say large objects don't behave quantum mechanically, what they really mean is generally that we just don't need to treat them with quantum mechanics because the effects are too small to notice anyway.
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