Physicists prove 'quantum spookiness' and start chasing Schrodinger's cat October 26, 2015 by Peter Mosley, The Conversation Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! It’s proven: the universe is weird. Robert Couse-Baker/Flickr, CC BY-ND The world of quantum mechanics is weird. Objects that are far apart can influence each other in what Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance", and cats can potentially be dead and alive at the same time. For decades, scientists have tried to prove that these effects are not just mathematical quirks, but real properties of the physical world. And they are getting somewhere. Researchers have finally proven in a new study that the link between particles at a distance reflects how the universe behaves, rather than being an experimental artefact. Meanwhile, another team of researchers have set out to show that a living creature, albeit a bacterium, can be in two different quantum states at the same time – just like the cat in Schrödinger's thought experiment. more at...... http://phys.org/news/2015-10-physicists-quantum-spookiness-schrodinger-cat.html
I always thought that the Schrödinger's Cat "paradox" was dismissed by most serious quantum physicists long ago. The view was that "observation" does not have to be limited to conscious observation of a measurement and so the cat is never really in a superposition of states.
