Quantum Enigma by Rosenblum Bruce Kutter Fred

Author:Rosenblum, Bruce, Kutter, Fred
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

Schrödinger’s Cat Today

Seven decades after Schrödinger told his story, conferences almost every year address the quantum enigma and usually include discussions of consciousness. Reference to the cat story in professional physics journals increases. Two examples: One article, “‘Schrödinger Cat’ Superposition State of an Atom,” demonstrated such a state for a microscopic system. In another, “Atomic Mouse Probes the Lifetime of a Quantum Cat,” the “mouse” here is an atom and the “cat” is an electromagnetic field in a macroscopic resonant cavity. Though these were both serious and expensive physics projects, the titles illustrate how the physics discipline is inclined to approach the weirdness of quantum mechanics with a bit of humor.

Speaking of humor, here is a cartoon from the May 2000 issue of Physics Today, the most widely distributed journal of the American Institute of Physics. It would not likely have been published twenty years earlier.

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