Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness

PhysOrg ^ | 5/27/15

[VRWCarea51]

Now I know why Freud used heroin to understand reality.

I shall remain in a state of wishful ignorance.
Both particle and wave.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Donuts, math, and superdense teleportation of quantum information
http://phys.org/news/2015-05-donuts-math-superdense-teleportation-quantum.html

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Lol. I just sent that to my kids in two separate consecutive text messages. Now they are thinking “there goes Dad again!”

[InterceptPoint]

I maintain that the language of weirdness is all predicated on an attempt to retain a classical concept of objects. The correct view is that objects are emergent constructs of multiple quantum events. I don’t see why people can’t just accept this, as Feynman advocated.
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That could be. But accepting it is one thing and understanding it is quite another. But then again, even as a child, we all learned that rocks fall down not up. Now that makes sense to us despite the fact that we really don’t understand gravity much better than we do quarks.

[4Speed]

I think, therefor I used to be.

[dr_lew]

But then again, even as a child, we all learned that rocks fall down not up. Now that makes sense to us despite the fact that we really don’t understand gravity much better than we do quarks.

In his DE RERUM NATURA Lucretius accepts the immediate subjective experience of downwardness as a universal principle, and expounds on it at length, ridiculing the notion of a spherical earth as a patent impossibility.

It is true that "falling down" still makes sense to us, even though most of us are ready to admit that the idea is based on particular circumstances, and has been supplanted by central force gravitation in a more general understanding.

So I'm saying that the "weirdness" talk is analogous to Lucretius' POV, in that it refuses to abandon the classical object as a universal principle.

[Cvengr]

You're a bad man!

[Axenolith]

Children understand this, if moms not looking, it either didn’t happen, or “Not Me” did it...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks LibWhacker.

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[MHGinTN]

"At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it" Um, no, it exists as potential wave and particle. Measuring interrupts the particle's interactions with the zero point field, causing a favoring of one or the other (particle or wave form) based upon the imbalance of wave form impacts with the zp field dictated by the measuring parameters.

[samtheman]

I agree with you, Fred. Quantum Reality is quite mundane if viewed through the point of view of the very small. It’s onl when we try to apply our macro object experience to the quantum world that it seems so strange.

Light is neither particle nor wave.