nathaniel stuart

In Schrodinger’s famous thought experiment of the 1930s, a cat would be placed in a sealed box with a device containing atomic material. A Geiger counter was included to measure radiation if at some point an atom decayed. Should that happen, the Geiger counter would trigger the release of cyanide gas, which would kill the cat. The idea was that it was impossible to know whether or not the cat was alive or dead without opening the box and observing it, and that until that happened, both realities existed. This became known as superposition.

“What was funky about Schrodinger’s idea was that you could take a normal macroscopic object, which we all think we know and understand fairly well, and you could put it into a quantum superposition - and that’s kind of weird,” Professor Huntington said. “Nowadays any kind of system where you do that is known as a Schrodinger’s cat. So in our case what we’ve done is take a macroscopic beam of light and put it into a quantum superposition, which is extremely fragile, and teleported that from one place to another.”

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Scientists teleport Schrodinger’s cat - ABC News

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