Police were recently called to disperse some animal rights protesters from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge after they got wind of news that a group of physicists were attempting to replicate the results of the Schrodinger’s Cat experiment.
OK, well, this didn’t actually happen, but it’s the sort of story that could conceivably be reported on the first day of April. Nevertheless, since Erwin Schrödinger suggested his thought experiment in 1935, more ink has been spilt over it than many experiments that really have been performed.
