by Frederick B. Reitz, Ph.C. University of Washington Seattle,
Washington Illustrations by Marian Parry I report here the first
evidence that domestic cats exhibit quantum tunneling. Subatomic
particles can make seemingly impossible, instantaneous "jumps"
from one place to another. This has been known in theory for
well over half a century. Numerous examples of it have been
observed and meticulously documented. Known as "quantum
tunneling," this strange phenomenon had previously been thought
to occur only on very small scales. In this paper I report
instances of the spontaneous relocation of entire cats. Though
cats are arguably quantal to the extent that they tend to exist
as discrete entities, the appreciable magnitude of some of the
cats in question constitutes a novel aspect of the tunneling
phenomenon. The physical literature contains many reports of
electrons and similar particles spontaneously jumping or
"tunneling" from one place to another via so-called "forbidden"
routes. This phenomenon has enjoyed