You may have heard that the infamous Schrodinger’s cat is simultaneously dead and alive, but did you know that it is also a contortionist? Or at least you might have thought so, had you attended the first night of the American Physical Society’s March Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, and seen the world premiere of Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps, a physics-inspired circus performance.
Smitha Vishveshwara, March Meeting chair and physics professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, introduced the event as adding a missing …