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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anders Sandberg<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 29, 2015 5:14 AM<br><b>To:</b> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] big cat?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 2015-12-29 02:39, spike wrote:<br><br><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/12/28/big-schr-dingers-cats-created.html?intcmp=trending">http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/12/28/big-schr-dingers-cats-created.html?intcmp=trending</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>They don’t offer useful free references; only the 24 December issue of Nature, but I don’t have a subscription to that. Might get one.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The paper is this one<br><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v528/n7583/full/nature16155.html">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v528/n7583/full/nature16155.html</a><br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D'>Thanks Anders!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Yes, the distance involved was 54 cm. But we are still talking about 100,000 atoms in an optical trap, not a quantum lion. <br></span>-- <span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>Anders Sandberg<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Well ja. But if I had a 54 cm cat in a box and didn’t know if he was dead until I open it, I would still bring along Mister Remington just to make sure no quantum uncertainty would leap out of there and disembowel my philosophical ass.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></pre></div></body></html>