It is so interesting that a team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving.
Largest ever object put into quantum state.
Hands in motion (hands have motion blur) doing a drum roll on an old brass snare drum.
A quantum drum has become the first visible object to be put into a superposition of quantum states.A. Olsen/iStockphoto
This is really interesting as it says in the article: Why don’t we see double-decker buses simultaneously stopping and going?
Since this is the news at http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100317/full/news.2010.130.html#B1 you may want to read the scientific background, the details about experiment by reading article: O’Connell, A. D. et al. Nature doi:10.1038/nature08967 (2010).
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