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Published online 27 May 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news990527-4

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More ways to skin Schrödinger's cat

Hearing of Erwin Schrödinger’s famous thought-experiment to illustrate the weirdness of quantum mechanics, an impassioned reader of the UK newspaper the Guardian was once moved to write “[D]isregarding the metaphysical aspects of Schrödinger’s cats, I must protest at the use of (possibly live) animals for experiments such as these. I urge readers to boycott whatever product this research is leading to.

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