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Scientists Just Split a Single Photon. Here’s What They Found
Scitech Daily ^ | August 19, 2025 | Tampere University

Posted on 08/19/2025 10:49:42 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 08/19/2025 10:49:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay; telescope115; laplata; ...

A Quantum of Ping!.................


2 posted on 08/19/2025 10:50:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
entangled states

Well, we've got a lot of them...

3 posted on 08/19/2025 10:52:01 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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I don’t know why they haven’t used this ‘entangling’ for a super secure communications system yet..................


4 posted on 08/19/2025 10:53:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Jim W N

George Washington warned us about this.


5 posted on 08/19/2025 10:53:07 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The list of things I no longer care about is long. And it's getting longer.)
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To: Red Badger

Is that how they make pho?


6 posted on 08/19/2025 10:53:42 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Red Badger

(1) Who says “they” haven’t? 😎

(2) Fundamental discoveries can be very difficult to develop into practical applications.


7 posted on 08/19/2025 10:54:51 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger
A single photon? Ha!


8 posted on 08/19/2025 10:56:29 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Red Badger

“You kids put that thing back together right now!” Dang kids.


9 posted on 08/19/2025 10:57:55 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Red Badger

As always, another great post. thanks.

I’m far from being a scientist/physicist, but this seems very important.


10 posted on 08/19/2025 10:58:19 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Red Badger

How manty times can a photon be split into two photons?
Is it photons all the way down?


11 posted on 08/19/2025 10:59:19 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

It’s like a Russian Nesting Doll...............


12 posted on 08/19/2025 11:01:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

They found a Bozon and a Moron each of whom promptly registered as Democrats.


13 posted on 08/19/2025 11:03:14 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: nickcarraway

Just add water..................


14 posted on 08/19/2025 11:04:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: nickcarraway

“Is that how they make pho?”

They make a TON of ‘em.


15 posted on 08/19/2025 11:05:00 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
“Even the fleas have fleas!”

I was expecting revelation of yet another sub-subatomic particle.

16 posted on 08/19/2025 11:06:43 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: Magnum44

“A single photon? Ha!”

So you’re waving it off?


17 posted on 08/19/2025 11:06:56 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: Migraine

Get back to me when it’s a torpedo.


18 posted on 08/19/2025 11:09:39 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: Red Badger

-I don’t know why they haven’t used this ‘entangling’ for a super secure communications system yet..................-

I don’t think that would work as you can’t transmit information via entangled particles.


19 posted on 08/19/2025 11:09:58 AM PDT by bosco24
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To: TTFlyer
They found a Bozon and a Moron each of whom promptly registered as Democrats.

Bozon and Moron then Spiton and Peedon the US Constitution, per the Democrats' instructions.

20 posted on 08/19/2025 11:10:01 AM PDT by Migraine
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