A team of physicists have put forward an ambitious new plan to put the principle of quantum superposition, where an object can exist in two places at once, to work on a subject that has not been attempted before: they plan on doing this with a living microorganism.
Researchers have been steadily increasing the scale of the subject that they subject to a state of quantum superposition, where the particles affected are in more than one place at the same time, starting with smaller elementary particles such as photons, up through recent experiments where macroscopic, inanimate objects have been subjected to this state.
But what about living organisms?
Researchers have been steadily increasing the scale of the subject that they subject to a state of quantum superposition, where the particles affected are in more than one place at the same time, starting with smaller elementary particles such as photons, up through recent experiments where macroscopic, inanimate objects have been subjected to this state.
But what about living organisms?
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