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Could Schrödinger’s cat exist in real life? Our research may soon provide the answer – Phys.org
Have you ever been in more than one place at the same time? If you’re much bigger than an atom, the answer will be no.
Have you ever been in more than one place at the same time? If you’re much bigger than an atom, the answer will be no.
But atoms and particles are governed by the rules of quantum mechanics, in which several different possible situations can coexist at once.
Quantum systems are ruled by what’s called a “wave function”: a mathematical object that describes the probabilities of these different possible situations.
And these different possibilities can coexist in the wave function as what is cal…
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