Physicists Made a Flying Army of Laser Schrödinger's Cats

space.com ^ | January 30, 2019 06:50am ET | Rafi Letzter, Live Science Staff Writer |

[BenLurkin]

[Fiddlstix]

[UCANSEE2]

[blueunicorn6]

Ohhhhhh.....

This explains why my dogs have been setting up Surface to Air Missiles.

[UCANSEE2]

"They were large objects that acted like the simultaneously dead-and-alive creatures of subatomic physics — existing in a limbo between two simultaneous, contradictory states."

[apostoli]

let's go to the power of 2!

[sparklite2]

If I said I understood this,
it would be such a lie.

[exDemMom]

I would like to know how they knew the quantum pulse existed in two forms simultaneously until it hit the detector. What would differentiate that from random generation of one form or the other at the outset, which would appear to the detector exactly the same way?

[Kommodor]

Lazer kitties, pew pew

do want.

Do they chase their own lazer pointers?

[Zathras]

From Big Bang Theory LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgRViUJ3J4E

[DannyTN]

Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Ohm are in a car

They get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving and the cop asks him “Do you know how fast you were going?”

“No, but I know exactly where I am” Heisenberg replies.

The cop says “You were doing 55 in a 35.” Heisenberg throws up his hands and shouts “Great! Now I’m lost!”

The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop open the trunk. He checks it out and says “Do you know you have a dead cat back here?”

“We do now, asshole!” shouts Schrodinger.

The cop moves to arrest them. Ohm resists.

[WKUHilltopper]

[Ancesthntr]

“Physicists Made a Flying Army of Laser Schrödinger’s Cats”

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Just so long as it isn’t sharks with lasers, everything will be just fine.

[mdmathis6]

Noted Scientist:”They were large objects that acted like the simultaneously dead-and-alive creatures of subatomic physics — existing in a limbo between two simultaneous, contradictory states.”

Fed up Patriot: “What?! Quantum particles created by a laser being bounced off rhubidium to create Shrodinger’s Cat paradoxical stringlets?”

Noted Scientist: “That is what we hoped for but all we got when we fired the laser were progressive politicians!”

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

What is the half life of a rubidium atom?

5.56mm

[BenLurkin]

[Magnum44]

[BenLurkin]

[Magnum44]

What could possibly go wrong?

[Fiddlstix]

What is the half life of a rubidium atom?

On Earth, natural rubidium comprises two isotopes: 72% is the stable isotope, 85Rb; 28% is the slightly radioactive 87Rb, with a half-life of 49 billion years—more than three times longer than the estimated age of the universe.

From Wikipedia