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INSPIRED by reports of experiments that show ever-bigger objects demonstrating quantum properties, Andrew Scott would like to propose some further research. The largest object that Feedback is aware of having gone through two points "at once" is a "buckyball", the near-spherical carbon-based molecule that is just visible under a microscope (8 May 2010, p 37).
Andrew is "wondering what would happen if we tried to narrow down the size range for quantum effects", working down from larger objects. He suggests that "we could begin by letting cats wander through two cat flaps towards a wall smeared with catmint and record the points they touch first". Funding, anyone?
"There is a fault with departure screens," read a display at Dewsbury station: "please disregard the information shown." So they were working?
FURTHER, reports of experiments ...
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