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Quantum mechanics, unlike classical physics, allows objects to exist in more than one state at the same time. This idea is ...

Theoretical physicists have proposed a new solution to the Schrödinger's cat paradox, which may allow the theories of quantum mechanics and Einstein's relativity to live in better harmony. The bizarre ...

Quantum mechanics is a physics framework that describes how matter and energy behave at an extremely small scale, ...

One reason to test ever larger Schrödinger’s kittens is they might show us that quantum mechanics itself breaks down before ...

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Physicists have pushed one of the strangest ideas in science into new territory, holding tiny clumps of metal in a quantum limbo that recalls Schrödinger’s famous cat. Instead of a single atom or ...

As Joe Howlett points out, "the Schrödinger equation remains physicists’ foremost window into the quantum realm. It tells scientists how that strange world works; that is, how quantum objects interact ...