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Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps review: Embodying Schrodinger's cat

This physics-inspired circus performance enthralled attendees of the American Physical Society’s March Meeting, but a casual observer may have missed some of the scientific concepts that performers enacted

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

14 March 2023

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Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps.

CAMILLA SJODIN. American Physical Society

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 …

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