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Article: Executing Schrodinger's cat.(quantum theory)
- Article from:
- Popular Mechanics
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
- Author:
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Researchers believe they will soon be able to solve one of the most perplexing problems of modern physics: finding a way to execute Schrodinger's cat.
The imaginary feline has been dogging scientists since 1935. No doubt to the horror of cat-lovers everywhere, in that year an experiment using a cat to illustrate the dilemma of quantum theory was presented by Erwin Schrodinger, an Austrian-born physicist and one of quantum theory's founding fathers. Frequently described as the most successful scientific theory of the 20th century -- without it we wouldn't have lasers, gene splicing or nuclear weapons, among other things -- quantum mechanics explains how nature ...
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