Spooky Quantum Entanglement Gets Extra 'Twist'

Now physicists at the University of Vienna in Austria have "virtually intertwined" or entangled two particles spinning faster than ever in opposite directions. Entanglement occurs when two particles remain connected so that actions performed on one affect the other, despite the distance between them. (Einstein referred to this eerie connection as "spooky action at a distance.")

In the new study, Anton Fickler and his colleagues entangled two photons that had a high orbital angular momentum, a property that measures the twisting of a wave of light. In quantum physics, particles such as photons can behave as particles and waves.

Such entanglement experiments have been carried out for decades. In this case, though, the researchers did something a bit different. They created entangled photons and gave them lots of angular momentum, more than in any experiment before.

To create entangled photons, Fickler and his team sent a laser through a beam splitter, dividing the laser beam into two. Two photons were sent down separate optical fibers and their waves were twisted, and twisted, and twisted some more, ramping up their angular momentum — imagine a wave shaped like a spiral, spinning faster and faster.

Eventually, there was enough angular momentum in the photons that their quantum numbers — the units their momentum is measured in — differed by a factor of 600, a higher value than any seen previously. The photons spinning rapidly in opposite directions, meanwhile, were still entangled.

Okay! How does the concept of Time, in quantum physics, actually work? Well, first of all, we need to understand that there are such things as, what is called, a quantum WAVE FUNCTION, commonly known as a QUIFF, OR, more accurately, a Quiff Wave. Now, a Quiff Wave is actually a quantum wave of PROBABILITY... MEANING that within any quantum wave of probability IS...ALL POSSIBLE REALITIES!!! In other words, ANY possible reality, THAT COULD BE, is present in a quiff wave.

Now, one additional principle of quantum physics, needs to be injected here, at this point. And that is the principle of OBSERVATION. What this means is that something does NOT EXIST, UNTIL it is OBSERVED. In scientific terms, when the experiment is performed, AND the results of the experiment are observed (by whatever means, be it the meters, the equipment, or the person themselves, who is conducting the test) - WHEN the OBSERVATION takes place, THEN, and only THEN, does the RESULT come into EXISTENCE. In other words, quantum physics says that a particular, specific, individual REALITY...did NOT EXIST, until it was observed. PRIOR to being observed, and coming into existence, at THAT time, it ONLY was a reality in PROBABILITY!!! And ALL realities exist in PROBABILITY ONLY, until such time as ONE of those realities is OBSERVED (or SELECTED). THEN, by the act of observation, that ONE reality comes into actual EXISTENCE. And that is what is known as “popping” a quiff wave, or bringing a singular reality INTO EXISTENCE (which can also be called CREATION).

Now, to get back to the aspect of Time. What we actually have, in quantum physics, is two quiff waves, of probability (Remember?)...one quiff wave is coming from the PAST, and the other quiff wave is coming from the FUTURE. AND, if you remember, contained within each quiff wave IS ALL POSSIBLE REALITIES. SO, if we, or whoever, CHOOSE to OBSERVE those quiff waves, from the PAST and the FUTURE, we THEN “pop” those quiff waves, BRINGING INTO THE PRESENT, WHATEVER REALITY it is, that we have chosen to observe IN EACH ONE of those quiff waves.
In other words, the PRESENT then comes into EXISTENCE, and the present is composed of two parts: the individual, specific REALITY, from the PAST, that was chosen, AND, the individual, specific REALITY, from the FUTURE, that was also chosen. SO, the PAST, AND the FUTURE, constitute (or create) the PRESENT!

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