beryllium as a cat

[lsanderson]

Quantum Trickery: Testing Einstein's Strangest Theory
By DENNIS OVERBYE

Einstein said there would be days like this.

This fall scientists announced that they had put a half dozen beryllium atoms into a "cat state."

No, they were not sprawled along a sunny windowsill. To a physicist, a "cat state" is the condition of being two diametrically opposed conditions at once, like black and white, up and down, or dead and alive.

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[artkouros.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes. Schrodinger's Cat -- one of my -- no, my most -- favorite quantum mechanical conundrum.