A recent experiment tested the mass-based boundaries between the quantum and classical realms.
16 micrograms is roughly equivalent to the mass of a grain of sand, and that’s a very fat cat on a quantum level. It’s “several billion times heavier than an atom or molecule, making it the fattest quantum cat to date,” according to the release.
It’s not the first time physicists have tested whether quantum behaviors can be observed in classical objects. Last year, a different teamThis is slightly different, as the recent team was just testing the mass of an object in a quantum state, not the possibility of entangling a living thing.
As for the true boundary between the two worlds? “No one knows,” wrote Matteo Fadel, a physicist at ETH Zurich and a co-author of the paper, in an email to Gizmodo. “That’s the interesting thing, and the reason why demonstrating quantum effects in systems of increasing mass is so groundbreaking.”The new research takes Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment and gives it some practical applications.
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