Pakistan's Musharraf ordered held in custody for two weeks
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf gestures as he arrives at his residence in Islamabad.

Islamabad (CNN) -- Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was remanded in custody for two weeks Saturday by an anti-terrorism court over allegations he illegally ordered the detention of judges in 2007.

His appearance had been ordered by Pakistan's High Court, which on Thursday ruled that his alleged actions amounted to an act of terrorism.

After a 20-minute hearing, the anti-terrorism court in Islamabad placed Musharraf on judicial remand for 14 days. His next court appearance in the case is set for May 4.

As the former president left the court, there were clashes between anti-Musharraf lawyers and a small pro-Musharraf crowd.

Authorities decided Musharraf will be held under house arrest at his farmhouse compound in Chak Shazad, outside the Pakistani capital.

He will be moved from police headquarters, where he was whisked after his court appearance, to the farmhouse, police officials said.

The farmhouse has been converted into a "sub jail," Musharraf's lawyer, Ahmed Raza Qasoori, said Friday.

Musharraf spent Friday night at police headquarters following his appearance before a magistrate earlier in the day, after which he was initially allowed to return to the farmhouse.

Musharraf will continue to seek bail in the case, his lawyer said. An attempt on Thursday to appeal the High Court's decision at the Supreme Court appeared to have so far been unsuccessful.

The former president denies the charges against him and never gave any order to detain or abduct the judges in 2007, said Mohammad Amjad, a spokesman for his political party.

The development is the latest setback for Musharraf since the former military ruler returned to Pakistan last month to fight a series of court cases against him and re-enter the country's turbulent political scene by seeking to run in upcoming elections.

His arrest highlights the increased willingness of Pakistan's judiciary, which clashed with Musharraf during his time in power, to pursue cases against high-profile figures previously considered to be untouchable. No former Pakistani army chief has previously been arrested and detained.

Amid a long-running fight with the judiciary, Musharraf resigned as president of Pakistan in 2008 after nine years in power and went into exile the following year, living in London and Dubai. He came back to Pakistan last month under heavy security.

But so far, his return does not seem to be going according to plan.

Last week, Pakistani election officials barred him from running for a seat in parliament in elections next month, a decision his lawyer has said he will challenge.

The ex-military strongman still has to face two separate other cases dating from his time in power. The first relates to claims he did not do enough to protect the life of Benazir Bhutto -- the first woman to be elected prime minister of Pakistan -- after she was assassinated in 2007, weeks before an election in which she hoped to return to office.

Musharraf is also accused of ordering his troops to kill Nawab Akbar Bugti, a popular tribal leader, in the volatile province of Balochistan, in 2006.

CNN's Nic Robertson reported from Islamabad and Laura Smith-Spark wrote in London. CNN's Jethro Mullen, Aliza Kassim, Nasir Habib and Shaan Khan contributed to this report.
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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was remanded in custody for two weeks by an anti-terrorism court Saturday.

Making Something Exist in Two Places At Once

One of the most counterintuitive ideas in quantum mechanics is that it’s actually possible for something to exist in two places at the same time. This isn’t just a hypothesis, either – it’s been demonstrated experimentally, in such famous set-ups as the Double-Slit Experiment. So far, though, this has been experimentally limited to small particles and a few tiny molecules.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, in a paper submitted to Physical Review Letters are suggesting an experiment that could actually demonstrate this phenomenon on a much larger scale – in this case, a glass sphere that’s millions of atoms large. While that’s still small on human scales – only about 40nm in diameter – it’s vastly larger than any previous demonstration of quantum superpositions.

Although the practical mechanics of the experiment are complex, the basic concept is pretty simple. A glass sphere will be placed in a small cavity in a vacuum, where it’s as free as possible from any environmental interference. The sphere will then be hit with a laser, which should cause it to move. However, since the laser, being light, acts as a wave, the theory is that the sphere should end up in two places at once as a result. If the superpositions of the sphere can then be measured before it decoheres and snaps to just one location, that would be an unprecedented success.

This is a pretty exciting experiment that, if successful, gives scientists another tool in understanding quantum mechanics. Here’s hoping it works.

Summary:
Researchers have proposed an experiment that would put a glass sphere in two places at the same time.