Einstein's "Spooky Action at a Distance" Paradox Older Than Thought
Posted on 09/02/2017 8:35:07 PM PDT by TBP
IN BRIEF
Chinese physicists managed to demonstrate long-distance quantum entanglement in space, breaking previous records. This development, made possible by a novel method, could lead to improved information storage and transfer in the future. SPOOKY ACTION GETS TO SPACE
When it comes to weird science stuff, quantum entanglement is probably near the top of the list, especially back in the days when Einstein referred to it as that “spooky action at a distance.” Physicists have since demonstrated the “spooky” phenomenon to be possible, but now they want to extend its reach. A new study shows it’s possible for quantum entanglement to span far longer distances than previously demonstrated.
“We have demonstrated the distribution of two entangled photons from a satellite to two ground stations that are 1,203 kilometers [748 miles] apart,” lead author Juan Yin, physicist at the Science and Technology University of China in Shanghai, explained in a research paper published in the journal Science. The previous record for entanglement distribution reached only 100 kilometers (62 miles).
Yin’s team used the Micius, the world’s first quantum-enabled satellite which China launched in 2016, to transmit entangled photons to several ground stations separated by long distances. They managed to achieve this feat by using laser beams to prevent the light particles from getting lost as they traveled.
“The result again confirms the nonlocal feature of entanglement and excludes the models of reality that rest on the notions of locality and realism,” Yin and his colleagues wrote.
WIDENING POSSIBILITIES
Though quantum entanglement is incredibly complex, it’s possible to explain it in simple terms. Two or more particles are entangled or linked when a change in one’s state or properties instantaneously affects the other’s. What makes this stranger is that this link works regardless of distance. This phenomenon becomes particularly useful in storing information — as in the case of using quantum bits (qubits) in quantum computing.
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By proving that quantum entanglement can be maintained in space over such a long distance, this work paves the way for long-distance satellite quantum communication and maybe even realize the possibilities for quantum teleportation. “Long-distance entanglement distribution is essential for the testing of quantum physics and quantum networks,” Yin’s team wrote.
Advances in quantum cryptography, which rely heavily on extending entanglement, could change the way information is stored and transferred in the future — opening up applications in improved security in communication and even payment systems.
Quantum entanglement, especially tangled hierarchies, points to an intelligent universe. And that implies an Intelligence.
Albert Einstein?
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Einstein's "Spooky Action at a Distance" Paradox Older Than Thought
Way over my head.
But seems important. Very important.
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Probably didn’t actually happen. In general I find modern academic science to be mostly fraudulent, but in China it goes from mostly to almost all.
Mine too.
To me it infers information flow unconstrained by distance and the limitations of the speed of light.
Didn’t this happen about a month ago?
This seems to be old news.
How does one entangle two particles, and then remove one to take it 700 miles away? Do you use the world’s smallest pair of tweesers?
It really is quite simple; the fact that the penultimate particles have no space between them means communication is instantaneous.
Infinity goes both negative and positive and therefore cancel out.
So does this make warp drive possible? How about any Star Trek weapons? [jk]
http://admin.triumf.ca/docs/seminars/Sem4132307217-104756-1.Sem_Walden_Quant_20120121.pdf
This stuff is beyond bizarre. Somehow, an *instantaneous* connection over arbitrarily vast distances exists between two quantum entities which were once linked together. Einstein did not actually think it possible. His “spooky action at a distance” was meant to mock the idea, as his theory holds that nothing can travel faster than light.
How does what you say above relate to the notion that particles that travel AT the speed of light, such as light photons (and gravitons, supposed carriers of gravity), experience no time, and no distance traveled, whatsoever in going from point A to point B?
“Yin and his colleagues wrote.”
His colleague must have been Yang, as Yin & Yang are the two components of consciousness and all that is.
Quantum entanglement. ... of course as we are all ONE.
And we all exist within God, the ultimate entanglement.
Most of these entangled physicists are anti-Trumpers. Cut their funding!
Is it a physical phenomon with no explanation or is there at least a theory?
Either way of course the universe was created by an intelligence.
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