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Quantum Quirk: Stopped Laser Pulse Reappears a Short Distance Away
Scientific American ^
| February 07, 2007
| JR Minkel
Posted on 02/09/2007 10:40:40 AM PST by Ben Mugged
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the matter wave is simultaneously there and not there
To: Ben Mugged
Stopped Laser Pulse Reappears a Short Distance Away Was it carrying one of my missing socks?
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posted on
02/09/2007 10:45:26 AM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
To: Ben Mugged
As a result, the BEC enters a so-called superposition, meaning the matter wave is simultaneously there and not there.Ooohh-kay.
Bunny. Pancake.
To: Ben Mugged
Cool!! has they would say in the 1960s.
the matter wave is simultaneously there and not there
It in a flux alignment between itself and the cloud of Sodium gas particles that the matter wave is align too.
To: Ben Mugged
Delta Airlines' India office send emails the same way.
To: ElkGroveDan
That is great but .....
how does it help stop Illegal Invasion from south of the border ....
/sarc ..... sorry ...
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posted on
02/09/2007 10:48:01 AM PST
by
SubGeniusX
("BLAMMO! Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead!")
To: Ben Mugged
Quantum physics makes my head hurt. But it is cool!
To: ElkGroveDan
Hmmm. I think my dryer is a BEC.
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posted on
02/09/2007 10:49:04 AM PST
by
patton
(Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
To: Ben Mugged; Physicist; RadioAstronomer; PatrickHenry
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posted on
02/09/2007 10:49:22 AM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: SubGeniusX
To: Ben Mugged
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posted on
02/09/2007 10:53:02 AM PST
by
siunevada
(If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
To: Luke Skyfreeper
If it makes you feel any better, even the physicists that developed quantum mechanics had a Bunny-Pancake reaction to their own creation.
To: siunevada
simultaneously there and not thereDoes explain some of Hillary's politcal positions.
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posted on
02/09/2007 10:55:09 AM PST
by
Ben Mugged
(Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)
To: Ben Mugged
Cdr Riker's battle strategy with Wesley Crusher's experiment in real life.
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posted on
02/09/2007 10:56:21 AM PST
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: Luke Skyfreeper
The ole' Bose Einstein current trick. It's all smoke and mirrors.
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posted on
02/09/2007 10:59:03 AM PST
by
Domicile of Doom
(Center amber dot on head and squeeze for best results)
To: Ben Mugged
this universe is far weirder than we have been led to believe!
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posted on
02/09/2007 10:59:20 AM PST
by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: Ben Mugged
"Ah got no idea what that is, but I want it!!"
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posted on
02/09/2007 11:00:09 AM PST
by
GoldCountryRedneck
("God made liquor and God made brew, so ugly people could have sex too" - unknown)
To: antiRepublicrat
The trick is to just give up trying making any sense of it. Everything about it is counter-intuitive and not at all reflective of the world we experience at the macro scale. But the reality of it has been proven, as the two-slit experiment famously shows.
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posted on
02/09/2007 11:01:54 AM PST
by
-YYZ-
To: Ben Mugged
If quantum effects can be scaled to the macroworld...
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posted on
02/09/2007 11:04:29 AM PST
by
Fitzcarraldo
(If the Moon wasn't there, people would have traveled to Mars by now.)
To: Luke Skyfreeper
Would that be the 'clinton' matter wave? Like the definition of 'is'?
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posted on
02/09/2007 11:14:24 AM PST
by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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