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Schrödinger's Cat Just Got Even Weirder (and Even More Confusing)


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Credit: The Washington Post

Everyone's heard of Schrödinger's cat, and if you're not a physicist or a liar, you can probably admit that you don't really get it. Well, hold onto your hats: A new study pushes the thought experiment into even stranger territory.

"It's understandable that people don't understand it," says Yale University's Chen Wang, lead author of "A Schrödinger Cat Living in Two Boxes," published in the journal Science. "You can't understand it using common sense. We can't either."

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