Experiment was based on "Schrodinger's Cat": a situation where a cat is placed inside a steel chamber alongside a vial of acid and a small amount of radioactive substance.
If one atom of this decays during a test period this will break the vial and kill the cat. According to quantum law, the cat was alive and dead in a super-position of states while the chamber was closed. The state of the cat is only decided when the chamber is opened and the cat is observed; it is the observation or measurement itself that affects the outcome.
The Daily Mail reports that the mind-bending laws of quantum mechanics, where tiny atoms and molecules can effectively be in two places at once, have been applied to a visible object (billions of times larger than previously tested before) for the first time by a U.S. team from the University of California led by Andrew Cleland.
After describing in scientific detail how the researchers conducted their experiment, the report explains that it was based on a "real-life version of 'Schrodinger's cat'--a famous thought experiment devised by the physicist Erwin Schrodinger."
According to the article, the experiment describes a situation "where a cat is placed inside a steel chamber alongside a vial of acid and a small amount of radioactive substance. If one atom of this decays during a test period this will break the vial and kill the cat."
Source: Breaking Christian News | Teresa Neumann
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