Posted on 10/15/2024 2:40:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), led by Prof. Jianwei Pan, Qiang Zhang, and Kai Chen, in collaboration with CHEN Jingling from Nankai University, has achieved the loophole-free test of Hardy's paradox for the first time. The team successfully demonstrated Hardy's nonlocality, closing both the detection efficiency loophole and the locality loophole...
Hardy's paradox, introduced by Lucien Hardy in the 1990s, offers a simplified test of local realism—the classical idea that physical properties exist independently of observation and that no signals exceed the speed of light. This paradox exposes the conflict between quantum mechanics and local realism by demonstrating that, under certain conditions where three "Hardy events" have a zero probability, quantum mechanics predicts a non-zero probability for a fourth event, which contradicts local realism.
Experimentally confirming Hardy's paradox is challenging due to the low probability of the fourth event, requiring high fidelity and efficiency in entanglement sources to distinguish it from noise. Prior experiments faced two main challenges: the locality loophole, where measurement choices could affect outcomes, and the detection efficiency loophole, due to optical losses.
In addressing the locality loophole, the researchers meticulously crafted a space-time experimental setup that ensured the measurement choices were spacelike separated from both the entangled state preparations and the photon detections. This configuration precludes any possibility of the measurement settings being influenced by the outcomes, thereby eliminating the locality loophole.
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Maybe so!
It’s called SunkenCiv’s Paradox.
Do you have, perchance, a pair of nurses?
And now that I have mentioned it, you did, in the past.
Shh! Thursday night.
“This is evidence that time and space are emergent illusions.”
Well, you’ll keep Buddhists happy with statements like that.
CC
IOW... If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to observe... it still makes a noise...
Don’t feel bad. Legendary physicist Richard Feynman said “nobody really understands quantum mechanics.” I think it’s still true.
Ooops! Time to re-program the Matrix!
I was thinking God exists all at once, past, present & future. If He needs to make an adjustment somewhere along the line (our physical line), He’s more than capable of doing so. :-)
Thanks for the explanation. But, I am thinking that while your answer explains that what it all means is “that happens on one side of the universe can affect something that happens on the other”, I believe that answer applies to the quantum level of things, and only directly the quantum level. No??
So a tree falling in the woods does make a noise if no one’s there to observe it?
😂😁👍
Oh, okay, now...
I don’t really know.
There is something going on we cannot understand/perceive from our perspective.
Probably caused by how we perceive time. It’s likely something more akin to a Marvel Multiverse movie than we care to believe.
He is. He said that. I am who I am.
He always is in the PRESENT.
He exists outside of time and space. Which makes sense, as He created time and space.
Mostly correct, but useful applications of time and space entanglement are starting to appear, such as securely sending decryption keys, and quantum computers that hack time. There is suspicion that human consciousness uses entanglement. One reason we haven't detected an advanced civilization out there yet might be because speed of light radio communication is way too primitive for them.
“There is suspicion that human consciousness uses entanglement.”
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