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Schrodinger's Cat

NPR's Richard Harris reports that physicists have created an experiment to explore one of the great paradoxes of modern physics. The conundrum, known as the Schrodinger's cat paradox, puzzled Einstein and other great modern physicists. Now, scientists have created a physical example of the paradox, which seemingly puts one atom in two places at the same time.

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