Can Physicists Really Save Schrödinger’s Cat?

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In a new experiment, scientists watched Schrödinger's cat in action and found that they could not only predict whether the cat would be "dead" or "alive," but could also save it.
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▼ There may be a grain of hope for physics' most famous doomed feline, Schrödinger's cat.
In the bizarre thought experiment symbolizing the weird state of subatomic particles in quantum physics, a cat confined to a box is both dead and alive until the box is opened, at which point the cat either falls down dead or happily bounds away.
It was once thought that this moment of truth was instantaneous and completely unpredictable. But in a study published June 3 in the journal Nature, Yale physicists were able to watch Schrödinger's cat in action, predict the feline's fate and even save the cat from an untimely death.
With this new finding, the physicists were able to "stop the process and return the cat to its alive state," Michel Devoret, a physicist at Harvard and one of the study's co-authors, told Live Science.
In physics, Schrödinger's catis a thought experiment in which a cat is trapped in a box with a particle that has a 50-50 chance of decaying. If the particle decays, the cat dies; otherwise, the cat lives. Until you open the box, however, (▪ ▪ ▪)

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