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Top 100 Stories of 2011: #17: Quantum Weirdness Enters the Larger World | DISCOVER Magazine
An octopus-shaped molecule is giving Schrödinger’s cat competition as the mascot of the bizarre world of quantum physics, where matter can simultaneously exist in different states. Physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment posited that a cat behaving according to quantum principles could be dead and alive at the same time. We are spared such paradoxes because the rules of quantum physics seem confined to subatomic objects— in the human-scale world, a cat is either alive or dead......
Published By: Discover Magazine - Saturday, 28 January
