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[Subscription Information] Two Places at Once? NIST Shows It's
Only for Atoms Superpositioning. Being in two places at the same
time. We'd all like to have the power with our busy schedules.
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and
Technology's Boulder, Colo., laboratories proved in 1996 that
superpositioning can occur at the atomic level. Four years
later, the same team has shown that-unfortunately for humans-it
only works in that tiny world. In both experiments, the
researchers isolated a single beryllium ion (an atom wit