The New York Times is hosting an article reporting the announcement by some physicists that they have put a half dozen beryllium atoms into a "cat state."

To a physicist, a "cat state" is the condition of being two diametrically opposed conditions at once, like black and white, up and down, or dead and alive.

The article also discusses some of the difficult and weird debates around the seemingly nonsensical but experimentally sound predictions that Quantum Physics has thrown at us.

Read on to find out more about this un-worldly world of Quantum Physics.