Spooky Quantum Entanglement Gets Extra 'Twist'

LiveScience ^ | Date: 06 November 2012 Time: 10:02 AM ET | Jesse Emspak, Contributor

[BenLurkin]

Just as importantly, the experiment shows that the only barrier to applying certain kinds of quantum effects is technical — there is no physical reason that one shouldn't be able to see quantum phenomena at high enough energies that they would bleed into the visible world...

What does that mean?

[GeronL]

I am not sure I understand it, but it sounds freaking cool. To be able to manipulate photons like that.

[x]

I read the headline as “Quantum Entitlement” and was wondering where I sign up to get mine.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t know but quantum entanglement has interesting potential for things like computing and possibly long distance communications.

[JRandomFreeper]

Right now, observing quantum effects is very technically difficult. Raising the energy of those events makes detection, and therefore usefullness much easier.

At least I think that's what they said in culinary school.

/johnny

[Bobalu]

lol...I want my free Faster-Than-Light Obama phone now!

[count-your-change]

Your left hand doesn’t know what your hand is doing but does exactly the same action.

[dhs12345]

heisenberg uncertainty principle?

The question: are you changing the properties of the photon by increasing its energy thereby interfering with or changing the experiment.

It almost sounds like a background noise issue that interferes with detection? Increasing the energy or “signal” improves detection. Much like amplification.

[Shark24]

the only thing we really know for sure is there is a cat in a box somewhere that is either dead or alive. All else is just conjecture.

[Shark24]

the only thing we really know for sure is there is a cat in a box somewhere that is either dead or alive. All else is just conjecture.

[circlecity]

"the only thing we really know for sure is there is a cat in a box somewhere that is either dead or alive."

Until you look at it. Then it becomes a box of donuts. With sprinkles. Ummmmmmmmmm, donuts with sprinkles. Argggggggg.

[JRandomFreeper]

My understanding is that adding energy (angular, in this case) to the photon makes it easier to see the state than otherwise would be possible.

My understanding is limited, in that particular area, since we barely covered it. I paid more attention to sauces, stocks, and breads during culinary school. ;)

/johnny

[verga]

BTTT

[dhs12345]

Lol. Zen and the art of culinary sciences. :) Science being the key word here.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/saywhat.wav

[LifeComesFirst]

I imagine it means things like probabilistic position and momentum.

[BenLurkin]

Oh, I see.

Like driving on the freeway.

[Larry - Moe and Curly]

“Until you look at it.”

You are quantumly correct. It would not have intertwined if they hadn’t observed it.

[Humbug]

I think it simply relates to one of the sentences just above it:

“This shows that entanglement effects can be seen at high energies, meaning closer to the macroscopic world we all know and interact with.”

Therefore suggesting that theoretically at least (and far beyond our current capability) it should be possible to do something like this so that it would be visible to the naked eye.