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Published online 10 September 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.903
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Physicists propose 'Schrödinger's virus' experiment
Laser technique could put virus in two overlapping quantum states.
Suspending a cat between life and death is one of the best-known thought experiments in quantum mechanics.
Now researchers from Germany and Spain are proposing a real experiment to probe whether a virus can exist in a superposition of two quantum states.
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Large objects of everyday experience are too exposed to the wider environment for them to bifurcate in a superposition for any appreciable length of time. I suppose if they could be chilled to nano K, then they'd be able to enter a superposition too... brrr!