Posted on 10/13/2017 5:37:01 PM PDT by 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!
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It’s just the opposite. Our everyday perception of the world is replete with quantum pehnomena. For example, metals. How would you explain them? Classicaly, they were accepted ad hoc. But Quantum Theory easily gives an account of their propeties.
Of course, this is not to mention the periodic table of the elements! That is the Quantum staring you in the face. I supposed you accepted it as rote, like verb conjugation or something.
Let me take that one question farther. You know when the Bible says ‘God is Light’? Makes me wonder...
Someday we will know all this and be totally amazed.
You might find Arthur Young interesting.
Umm. I thought the Bible said, "And God said, Let there be light, and there was light" ... emblematic of "fiat creation", you know. Very consonant with the "Big Bang", FWIW.
Umm. I thought the Bible said, "And God said, Let there be light, and there was light" ... emblematic of "fiat creation", you know. Very consonant with the "Big Bang", FWIW.
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