quantum entanglement:

Posted on October 22, 2015 by KG

‘For nearly a century, scientists have struggled with the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, which appears to break the classical laws of physics.
It seems to show that pairs of sub-atomic particles can be invisibly connected in a way that transcends time and space.
Now, a groundbreaking experiment has provided the clearest proof yet that this quantum effect – which Albert Einstein famously dismissed as ‘spooky action at a distance’ – is in fact real…’
‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy’

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16 Responses to quantum entanglement:

  1. Odakyu-sen says:
    October 22, 2015 at 23:18

    Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine; it’s stranger than we can imagine.

    (Not my quote)

  2. Ronbo says:
    October 23, 2015 at 00:54

    Great discovery!

    Now can we discover a way to make all the Leftists and Muslims in the world DISAPPEAR? http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

  3. KG says:
    October 23, 2015 at 05:29

    This just in:
    There is no substance to the rumors that the research team was led by Kim Kardashian.

    • Wombat says:
      October 23, 2015 at 12:20

      Nope. Kardashian heads the team of scientists working to determine what the mass and shape of multiple spheroids must be until no media attention can escape its gravitational pull.

  4. Brown says:
    October 23, 2015 at 07:17

    The Bible has a bit to say about this concept but in terms that were understandable at the time so its more theology than science. It raises the possibility that everything is connected.

  5. K2 says:
    October 23, 2015 at 08:36

    How often do the comments here discuss journalistic bias to push an agenda or even just to get clicks? Personally, I apply the same skepticism to this type of popular science article. Quantum entanglement has been known for a long time, but it is still not clear if the FTL effects discussed actually carry any information. If not, Einstein is preserved.

    = Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

    • KG says:
      October 23, 2015 at 12:20

      I wasn’t suggesting the article was talking about a serious breakthrough, K2, merely that it was interesting. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wink.gif
      If the effects don’t carry information, then what we have is something that turns our picture of reality – the whole mental landscape, as it were – on its head.

  6. Robertv says:
    October 23, 2015 at 09:46

    For many people, Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity lies hidden behind an impenetrable wall of complicated mathematics, superposed upon the widespread misconception that only those smarter than the average bear, with a penchant for doing long sums, can possibly understand it. However, the truth differs widely from the syllabus. Although mathematics is unnecessary for an understanding as to why cosmology is both logically inconsistent and disconnected from reality, cosmologists routinely resort to mathematical mysticism in their attempts to justify and impose their demonstrably false dogmatic beliefs. In his presentation, Stephen Crothers shall reveal the sacred secrets of tensor calculus and its accoutrements in order to see through the mathematical smoke and mirrors of Einstein and his followers. Anybody with high-school knowledge of the calculus is more than well prepared to deal with these matters. Perhaps this is the most frightening truth cosmologists must face. After all, calculations themselves are mere mechanical operations that impart no knowledge of their purpose in relation to physics. Curiously, neither Einstein knew nor his followers know how to do their sums right. That they don’t add up is sufficient to render them a form of numerology, which, like sympathetic magic and phrenology, does not lead to knowledge.

    https://youtu.be/QBorBKDnE3U

    • KG says:
      October 23, 2015 at 12:26

      I’ve argued for a long time that something that can only be explained in mathematical terms is no explanation at all.
      A lot of physics and cosmology seems to be playing with numbers while the real questions go unanswered.

      • Cadwallader says:
        October 23, 2015 at 12:57

        The existence of the Higgs Boson was predicted based on mathematics then 50 odd years later was detected in the Hadron Collider. Perhaps mathematics’ true role is to provide signposts rather than proofs? That said; quantum entanglement truly is weird and utterly counter-intuitive. I believe the discoveries of the oddities within the universe which we are now achieving, perhaps without our full understanding, are cumulative and increasingly enticing.