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Here’s a nice bit of coverage in the Pioneer magazine of the IMPACT! show, also featuring the 5th Dimensional Camera, with a review by Lord Robert Winston. And EPSRC have just released the lovely film they made during the show:

We presented the 5th Dimensional Camera in the IMPACT! Gallery at the Cheltenham Science Festival. Thanks to EPSRC and the festival organisers for hosting us. We spoke to scientists, school children, teachers, journalists, parents, students, authors, makers and many more.  Much fun was had, here are just some memories… more images here.

The title of this post is inspired from the famous Schrödinger thought experiment. A cat is placed in a sealed box with some poison, whether the poison is released or not is controlled by a random ‘quantum event’ such as radioactive decay. In the experiment, the cat must be simultaneously both dead and alive until [...]