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Scientist find a loophole in Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
Live Science ^ | 05/15/2021 | Ben Turner

Posted on 05/16/2021 9:35:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin

At its simplest, entanglement describes the idea that two particles can have an intrinsic connection that persists no matter how far apart they are. The particles are ethereally coupled: measure something about one particle, such as its position, and you’ll also glean information about the position of its entangled partner; make a change to one particle and your actions will teleport a corresponding change to the other, all at speeds faster than the speed of light.

The scientists in the first experiment... placed tiny drums, each around 10 micrometers long, on a crystal chip, before supercooling them to near absolute zero. With the drums chilled, the chances of them interacting with something outside of the system was dramatically reduced, enabling the scientists to coax the drums into an entangled state, vibrating in sync as they were hit with regular pulses of microwaves.

A second team of researchers... in Finland set out to use their own quantum drum system to sidestep one of quantum physics’ strictest rules...

First introduced by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the principle sets a hard limit to the absolute accuracy we can obtain when measuring some of the physical properties of a particle. .. that at its smallest, most fundamental level the universe is a fuzzy and unpredictable beast, never permitting complete information about it to be known.

But the second team of researchers found a way around this. By hitting their quantum drum continuously with photons, or light particles, like they would a snare drum, the researchers were able to tune their drums into an entangled state. Then, instead of measuring each individual drum’s position and momentum, the researchers treated the entangled drums as if they were a single, combined drum, and measured the imaginary drum’s position without affecting its velocity.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: butterflyeffect; finland; heisenberg; particlephysics; physics
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To: BenLurkin
Safri Duo - Bongo Song
41 posted on 05/16/2021 11:56:11 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Chode

Huh? I posted a video of Feynman playing the bongos.


42 posted on 05/16/2021 12:06:19 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: BenLurkin

They’re marching to the beat of a different drummer.


43 posted on 05/16/2021 12:53:09 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: BenLurkin

Proving once again that we will never know as much as we don’t know.


44 posted on 05/16/2021 12:57:57 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: BlueLancer

LOL


45 posted on 05/16/2021 1:11:31 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: BenLurkin

I thought Heisenberg was a crack cook in New Mexico?


46 posted on 05/16/2021 1:35:33 PM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: Az Joe
Thanks, I am one of those people who never had an inkling of anything about that TV show.   I know that actor is Bryan Cranston because my wife told me.
47 posted on 05/16/2021 1:35:35 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: Leaning Right

Valid, but, I shall wait to have my mind changed! Then again, all science books should be written in pencil so that changes can be easily made.


48 posted on 05/16/2021 2:09:44 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (Conan the Sailing Librarian)
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To: BenLurkin
"The researchers measured the extent of the drums’ entanglement by looking at how matched up their amplitudes — their maximum distances from their resting positions — were as they wobbled up and down by roughly the height of a single proton. The researchers saw that the drums vibrated in a highly synchronized way — when one drum had a high amplitude, the other had a low amplitude, and their velocities were exactly opposite values."

The result that the drums acted in contrast, suggests an undiscovered law for 'balance' within entanglement. The obvious 'problem' is the force is only applied to the first drum set, and yet the second drum set resonates in response, in opposition, and at a distance.

Not entirely convinced by this experiment, though. But if entanglement is ever even remotely harnessed to processing power, um, yeah.

49 posted on 05/16/2021 2:09:45 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: BenLurkin

To understand quantum entanglement (along with many other metaphysical things) you should watch anime.

https://www26.gogoanimes.tv/seishun-buta-yarou-wa-bunny-girl-senpai-no-yume-wo-minai-episode-7

(starting around 11:50)

The girl is a genius scientist explaining QE to a layman friend. Of course to get the context, you should start with the first episode. This one is well worth it.


50 posted on 05/16/2021 2:18:36 PM PDT by niteowl (Wisdom comes in two parts: 1) Having a lot to say, and 2) not saying it.)
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To: BenLurkin

I was thinking of Stargate Destiny and the freaky spirit possession stones.

I forgot about those. They were a sort of quantum entanglement communication device.


51 posted on 05/16/2021 2:41:54 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: niteowl

Marilyn Monroe explains relativity to Albert Einstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS0n_fr1Fyo


52 posted on 05/16/2021 2:44:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: kosciusko51

yeah, banging away so fast, i wonder if he had a lil help...

pretty incredible


53 posted on 05/16/2021 2:49:09 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Leaning Right
You have the essence of it.

You can measure the position and momentum simultaneously; but the product of the uncertainties in each measurement, must be on the order of Planck's constant or greater.

54 posted on 05/16/2021 3:01:35 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Dave Wright

Correct.


55 posted on 05/16/2021 3:02:01 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

They once pulled Heisenberg over on a traffic stop.

“Sir, do you know how fast you were going?”, the cop said.

“No, but I know where I am.”


56 posted on 05/16/2021 3:05:51 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (Joe, just STFU)
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