Very interesting topic.
I'll try and contribute later when i have more time.
Originally posted by gamerman
Sorry for my lack of knownledge to this particular matter but what is Schrodinger's cat ?
I know its a program with the same sentence
This article from: scienceagogo.com might be helpfull in sparking the discussion.
www.scienceagogo.com...
The experiment, described in Nature, is a clear demonstration of the quantum concept of entanglement, which occurs when the quantum properties of two
or more particles are correlated, and which Albert
Einstein called "spooky action at a distance."
Existing in two states at once is a peculiar property of quantum physics known as superposition. The ions in this experiment were placed in the most
extreme superposition of spin states possible with six ions.
All six nuclei are spinning in one direction and the opposite direction
simultaneously, in what physicists call Schrödinger cat states. The name was coined 80 years ago by German physicist Erwin Schrödinger who described
an extreme theoretical case of being in two states simultaneously, namely a cat that is both dead and alive at the same time.
But cats are never observed in such states in the macroscopic "real world," so
physicists believe that there is a boundary where the strange
properties of quantum mechanics - the rule book for Nature's smallest particles - give way to the physical laws that govern our everyday
experience. While the NIST experiment is a long way short of full entanglement of a real cat's roughly 1026 atoms, it extends the domain where
Schrödinger cat states can exist to at least six atoms.
To create their six-atom cat state, the NIST researchers used an electromagnetic trap to hold the ions a few micrometers apart while an ultraviolet
laser cooled the ions to near absolute zero. The cat states last about 50 microseconds and the researchers say they have run the experiment
successfully tens of thousands of times, including numerous runs that entangled four and five ions.
Please visit the link provided for the complete story. (emphasis Rren)