They completely misrepresent Schrödinger. Having two atoms spinning in opposite directions is not the same as a single cat being both dead and alive.
This article is full of mistakes.They completely misrepresent Schrödinger. Having two atoms spinning in opposite directions is not the same as a single cat being both dead and alive.
You've not grasped the paradoxicality of the situation being described: each of the six ions is spinning both clockwise and counterclockwise simultaneously. So each ion is manifesting a superposition of classically incompatible states, which justifies the analogy to a cat being both alive and dead simultaneously.