QUANTUM PHYSICS: MARCHING IN THE WEIRD PARADE
You know it’s bad when Einstein writes, “"No reasonable definition of reality could be expected to permit this”, and yet scientists are doing it, a trick of quantum mechanics Einstein described as “spooky action at a distance.” What exactly are they doing? Beryllium atoms were placed in a “cat state” where they were spinning in two opposite directions at the same time. If that isn’t weird enough for you, they were doing it in a synchronized manner, sharing information across distances in some unknown way. Oh yeah, the distance the information is conveyed can span a galaxy. One physicist compared it to “magic.” Another, Anton Zeilinger of the University of Vienna, put it best: "My personal opinion is that the world is even weirder than what quantum physics tells us.” That’s it for today. Warning: Contemplating this stuff for longer than 3 minutes will result in a deep need to take a nap.
posted by Bill McDonald @ 6:24 AM
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5 Comments:
Bill,
This post leads me to ask;
Is the rain getting to you?
Everyone knows that entangled quantum pairs are the result of eating too much tofu.
Entanglement…that is what the article calls this. Forget the rain, how did you know that?
We're working with the concept in the lab right now as a means of listening to your thoughts before you have them.
Just kidding,
Scientific American, many articles, back as far as 1998 that I remember.
Why don't they ever excerpt that stuff in the TV Guide for the rest of us? Actually, I do look at an occasional SA for the fascinating stuff about cells. The brain of the cell is now the perimeter? And DNA isn't a blueprint as much as raw code that gets edited? It's like the old Firesign Theater album, "Everything You Know Is Wrong."
You know, you, of all people, should never give me, of all people, a hanging fastball like that.
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