Einstein's Cartoon Laws of Physics

From
Quantum Trickery: Testing Einstein's Strangest Theory
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/27/science/27eins.html

This fall scientists announced that they had put a half dozen beryllium atoms into...the condition of being two diametrically opposed conditions at once, like black and white, up and down, or dead and alive.

These atoms were each spinning clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time. Moreover, like miniature Rockettes they were all doing whatever it was they were doing together, in perfect synchrony. Should one of them realize, like the cartoon character who runs off a cliff and doesn't fall until he looks down, that it is in a metaphysically untenable situation and decide to spin only one way, the rest would instantly fall in line, whether they were across a test tube or across the galaxy.