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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Scientists Are Dead Set on Proving Schrödinger’s Cat in Real Life: But don't worry—they're not going to harm any cats

Title:
Scientists Are Dead Set on Proving Schrödinger’s Cat in Real Life
 
Author:
Caroline Delbert
 
Published:
Popular Mechanics, 22 October 2020
 
From the article:
For the first time, scientists believe they might be able to show that Schrödinger's cat could exist in real life—not just in thought experiments. With larger and larger quantum objects, they say, a superpositioned cat seems inevitable. In the meantime, the scientists only have to figure out what’s preventing superpositioning at all in the largest quantum objects.