Put a cat in a box, and rig up a Rube Goldberg contraption - TopicsExpress



          

Put a cat in a box, and rig up a Rube Goldberg contraption involving a hammer, a vial of poison and a quantum triggering device. If an electron is in one position, the hammer will remain safely cocked. But if the electron moves into the opposite location, the hammer will drop, smashing the vial and killing the cat. The laws of quantum mechanics hold that as long as the electron remains undisturbed, it hangs in limbo, occupying both its possible states. The cat, by extension, is both dead and alive. youtube/watch?v=IOYyCHGWJq4
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:20:06 +0000

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