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Blind quantum camera snaps photos of Schrödinger’s cat

Laser experiment takes photographs without detecting light from feline subject

GHOSTLY IMAGE  Quantum weirdness allowed researchers to snap this photograph of a cat-shaped cardboard cutout using light that never directly interacted with the kitty.

Gabriela Barreto Lemos

By Thomas Sumner

- More than 2 years ago

Exploiting the same quantum quirk that spawns Schrödinger’s undead cat in the famous thought experiment, a research team snapped a portrait of a cat-shaped hole in cardboard without collecting any light bouncing off the two-dimensional kitty.