Quantum Weirdness in Real Life

I am no physicist but this always has struck me as a rather interesting idea...

Philip Ball writes in Nature.com that the mini-mirror, pasted on the end of a tiny arm, is attached to a single photon of light in a quantum superposition, meaning it's nowhere and everywhere�or two places at once. While the conditions necessary to create this effect are highly restrictive, involving a perfect vacuum and temperatures approaching absolute zero, but this may not remain the case forever.

Before this experiment, researcher William Marshall, along with other quantum physicists, always assumed that items larger than an atom were subject to decoherence, which prevents what they call "quantum weirdness," the ability of particles to be two places at once and for a change in one particle to influence the other, no matter how far apart they are.

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I would be skeptical of this research. I have not been any to find any evidence of further study into this feild or any independent studies carried out by other individuals. I'm no expert either but i would be hesitant with believing in something untill i was able to understand or atleast acknowledge the existence of some formal scientific approach or method to how this conclussion was reached. Any highschool student knows that some "experemints" can yield impossible results, study of their methods, varialbes, and independts usualy shows some foul up. Although i dont think this theory was simply thought up, and it may even have quantum mathamatics (which i can never dream of understanding) to back it up i do believe that their may be some flaw in their experemental method. Further independent research in this area may yeild the break through of the next millenium, or may provide insight on to why this experemint could yeild impossible results for a more mundane reason.

Attaching a mirror to a photon. I don't think so. They have managed to stop photons of light, but I've never heard of any manipulation being possible, especially no glue and mirrors. (did they use elmers?)

Every one of the quantum physics books I've read so far would suggest that this is a false claim.

I tried linking to the origingal Nature.com article, but the site is screwed up.

I'll try later.

My understanding is that observing quantum effects in large objects wouldn't be impossible, just dammed unlikely.

I really want to read the article. If we look into the mirror do we see two cats, one alive and one dead?

Here it is, sounds like a proposal for an experiment.

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