A single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16 million atoms

Science codex. com ^ | October 13, 2017 | Université de Genève

[BenLurkin]

Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, recently reengineered their data processing, demonstrating that 16 million atoms were entangled in a one-centimetre crystal.

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Although the concept of entanglement can be hard to grasp, it can be illustrated using two socks! Imagine a physicist who always wears two socks of different colours. When you spot a red sock on his right ankle, you also immediately learn something about the left sock: it is not red. There is a correlation, in other words, between the two socks. This is a reasonably prosaic and quite intuitive occurrence; but when we switch to the world of quantum physics, a new type of correlation -- infinitely stronger and more mysterious -- emerges: entanglement. Now, imagine there are two physicists in their own laboratories, with a great distance separating the two. Each scientist has a quantum particle, a photon, for example. If these two photons are in an entangled state, the physicists will see non-local quantum correlations, which conventional physics is unable to explain. They will find that the polarisation of the photons is always opposite (as with the socks in the above example), and that the photon has no intrinsic polarisation. The polarisation measured for each photon is, therefore, entirely random and fundamentally indeterminated before being measured. What we are dealing with here is an unsystematic phenomenon that occurs simultaneously in two locations that are far apart... and this is the mystery of quantum correlations!

[BenLurkin]

Thought for sure they'd say what color socks the guy on the other side of the planet wasn't wearing.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“The Force” in other words?

[Vesparado]

The lonely lives of scientists ...

[dr_lew]

In solids, everything is entangled, so don’t be impressed by all the talk ... DO be impressed by aluminum foil! It beggars the scientific imagination.

[Wuli]

There is a ton of problems with the usefulness, in any practical sense, of quantum states. When we are dealing, as all human-matter relationships are, at levels where humans can engineer how matter is determined and handled, we are not dealing with matter in any quantum state; not that any human tools of empirical evidence can use.

When quantum physics is so mature it is a mere part of everyday physics and humans can make everyday use of “quantum physics” then people should start taking a real interest. Until then it remains a curiosity.

[BenLurkin]

Somebody here keeps the String Theory ping list....

[Paladin2]

One word:

LASERs

[Dalberg-Acton]

On sharks!

[sparklite2]

Well, quantum tunnel microscopes have been around over thirty years.

Quantum hall effect has been used in resistance calibration for over twenty years.

I’d say it’s more than a curiosity.

[YogicCowboy]

How does one really prove what is happening when not measured?

[Buttons12]

Well then. In some dimension or state, the two photons are not "far apart." They might even be the same thing.

[bigtoona]

I think they make all this shit up to get money.

[BenLurkin]

Near as I can tell, that’s the explanation.

But don’t know.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

>>I think they make all this shit up to get money.<<

Now that observation is not only funny, it may also be TRUE!

[TBP]

Let’s say the “photon socks” are red and blue.

If you change the red one to where the blue one is, its red partner immediately changes correspondingly — simultaneously, without apparent communication, and at distances so great that relatively, the signals would need to travel faster than the speed of light, if indeed there were signals at all. And according to all conventional scientific understanding, this is not possible. Yet it occurs, repeatedly.

This is entanglement. It points to some unitary consciousness, some unitary force, behind the entanglements.

That force, that consciousness, can be said to be God.

[xp38]

frickin sharks!

[Bueller is here]

“There is speculation, wild speculation, and then there is cosmology. And now this.

[TBP]

Something very much like it.

[dr_lew]

C’mon, man, the whole digital empire is built on EXQUISITE Quantum Engineering. Look it up. It’s just so commonplace we don’t respect it anymore. Lord Almighty!

[adorno]

In some dimension or state, the two photons are not "far apart." They might even be the same thing.

You might be on to something.

I've always thought that particle entanglement is nothing more than a connection. That connection is nothing more than the very definition of "gravity". "Everything" is connected to itself. A photon at the edge of the universe might be connected to itself, which is manifesting itself as locally situated, but "entangled" or connected to itself.

If that were to be true, and everything in the universe is nothing more than a single particle with infinite entanglements. The whole universe might be just one "tiniest" of particles, which can take on unending property varieties.

So, entanglement is the same as gravity, where every instance of the entangled particle is always pulling back on itself. Entanglements mean that, the "single particle" can manifest itself throughout the infinite space, throughout infinite time. That "singularity" or single particle, can move in time and in space, all at the same time.

That singularity is what gave birth to the universe. That particle moved in time, and in space, both forwards and backwards. Everything we see in the universe is just one singularity, expressing itself as a multitude of "different things". All stars and planets and all the stuff that makes up the universe, are all "created" from that one single particle. Heck, all humans and all life-forms are made up from the same "entangler" or same creation particle.

Since our creation particle moves in time and in space, we should be seeing instances of past events, in current time. Likewise with "future" events. Okay, I'm getting a headache.... but.... that's my theory and I'm sticking with it.