8-15-95. NYPaper. [fundie lab-work for quantum cryptomorrow.] "It's a Molecule. No, It's More Like a Wave. In theory, an amoeba can behave as a wave and interfere with itself. In a university laboratory, a subatomic search for Schrodinger's Cat." Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently completed an experiment that proves that an object at least as large as a molecule can be made to act like a light wave -- forcibly split into two component waves and separately manipulated, altered, recombined and analyzed. Dr. David E. Pritchard and his colleagues at M.I.T. remind skeptics that quantum theory permits any object to behave as either a particle or a wave, depending on how it is viewed. Dr. Pritchard's research and that of other teams around the world represent an explosion of scientific interest in interferometry, a centuries-old technique by which waves are split and made to interfere with themelves, revealing details of nature that are otherwise hidden. With a brilliant history of discovery behind it, interferometry seems poised for a new golden age. CAT_tal (about 15kb)