(Phys.org) —Schrödinger's famous thought experiment in which a cat hidden in a box can be both dead and alive at the same time demonstrates the concept of superposition on the macroscopic scale.

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Recent experiments have begun to demonstrate how the weird world of quantum mechanics gives way to the familiarity of everyday experience Editor’s note (10/9/2012): We are making the text of this ...

Physicists from the Canadian Institute for Measurement Standards are the first to measure a quantum mechanical wave function. And it only took 88 years from the formulation of Schroedinger’s equation!