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Years ago, Physicist Erwin Schrodinger developed the Uncertainty Principle trying to have a cat be in states at the same time: dead and alive. This problem has been unsolvable for nearly one hundred years. Basic Physics shows that matter can only be in one state at a time. Over the past years, superposition has been developing in nonliving things. Superposition shows that an unobserved object can be in more than one state at a time: up and down, or dead and alive. Although it has only been done with nonliving organisms, scientists are working on developing superposition with living things.

 A German Physicist claims to have the answer to this century-old mystery. He says that by using an electromagnetic field by use of a laser he can trap his “Schrodinger’s virus” (which has the same principles as the mixture that Schrodinger used for his experiment) in a vacuum. Through another laser he slows down the virus to view it in its lowest energy state. By slowing down the virus, he is able to measure the photon in two separate states. The Physicist believes that this will create a path between the quantum world and the macroscopic world. Click here to read more about the article.

This would be an amazing dicover. It would show how our scientific world has never stopped improving, but is always finding out new and different things. It would be important for us as a world, because it is possible that with future experimentation these advances could be used in many different ways, including medical research and cures.

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