Atom's won't move when they are being watched :- A study Revealed This Amazing Fact
Remember playing Super Mario Bros. 3 as a kid (okay, maybe as an adult, too) and encountering Boos? The sneaky ghosts would only move when you weren’t watching them. Well, Cornell physicists verified that, much like the fictional foes from the Mario universe, a quantum system can’t change while you’re watching it. Of course, the real process is a little different, and has more to do with how we are able (or not able) to measure the world of the very tiny. A Watched Pot Never Boils This effect was considered one of the strangest predictions of quantum theory, but the experiments performed in the Utracold Lab of Muknud Vengalattore, associate professor of physics, confirmed it. Eventually, Vengalattore established Cornell’s first program to study the physics of materials cooled to temperatures as low as .000000001 above absolute zero; though, Vengalattore wasn’t alone in the study. For the experiment, graduate students Yogesh Patil and Srivatsan K. Chakram made and c...