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Letter: Letters : Clever cats

Published 23 August 1997

From Fiona Vincent, University of St. Andrews

“…A single quantum atom can be in two places at once…But a
single classical cat…can’t.”

So says your correspondent Ian Percival
(Letters, 2 August, p 49). He has
obviously never met any of the cats I have owned—nor T. S. Eliot’s cat Mr.
Mistoffelees, whose “voice has been heard on the roof/When he was curled up by
the fire”.

Issue no. 2096 published 23 August 1997

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