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Schrödinger's cat caught on quantum film
New Scientist ^ | 27 August 2014 | Penny Sarchet

Posted on 08/27/2014 7:37:18 PM PDT by Sparklite

Schrödinger's cat is the poster child for quantum weirdness. Now it has been immortalised in a portrait created by one of the theory's strangest consequences: quantum entanglement.

These images were generated using a cat stencil and entangled photons. The really spooky part is that the photons used to generate the image never interacted with the stencil, while the photons that illuminated the stencil were never seen by the camera.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: kittyping; physics; quantummechanics
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1 posted on 08/27/2014 7:37:18 PM PDT by Sparklite
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To: Sparklite

knock, knock, knock “PENNY” knock, knock, knock “PENNY” knock, knock, knock “PENNY”


2 posted on 08/27/2014 7:40:59 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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3 posted on 08/27/2014 7:43:12 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: ClearCase_guy

ROFL !!!


4 posted on 08/27/2014 7:45:08 PM PDT by Sparklite
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To: Sparklite

I caught that punk cat and beat it’s @ss.


5 posted on 08/27/2014 7:47:15 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Sparklite

and how many lab dollars did THAT cost;)


6 posted on 08/27/2014 7:51:22 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: ClearCase_guy

Bane Cat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-WGkCm06hI


7 posted on 08/27/2014 7:53:33 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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8 posted on 08/27/2014 7:54:27 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Sparklite

It’s only “spooky” if you try to conceive of photons as classical objects. Of course, they are not. They obey Bose-Einstein statistics. Why isn’t that spooky? ( It is! ... if you think about it. )


9 posted on 08/27/2014 8:00:26 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Sparklite
Quantum cat photo: Quantum Cat QuantumCat.jpg
10 posted on 08/27/2014 8:03:25 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Beowulf9

Now, now, it keeps our betters in pin money.


11 posted on 08/27/2014 8:07:09 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Sparklite

The article implies, if I’m reading it correctly, that information can be passed between the entangled photons. If so, it might one day provide instantaneous communication with spacecraft. No time lag. We could drive a rover on Mars in real time.


12 posted on 08/27/2014 8:08:45 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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subspace communications??? real??


13 posted on 08/27/2014 8:15:08 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Sparklite; Slings and Arrows
These images were generated using a cat stencil and entangled photons. The really spooky part is that the photons used to generate the image never interacted with the stencil, while the photons that illuminated the stencil were never seen by the camera.


14 posted on 08/27/2014 8:15:35 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Spooky action at a distance and quantum entanglement and Schrödinger's cat!

I'll raise you one Hello Kitty!

http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/27/6076065/breaking-news-hello-kitty-is-not-a-cat

Your childhood has been torn asunder by the Gods that once gifted you. In preparing a Hello Kitty retrospective for the Japanese American National Museum, University of Hawaii Anthropologist Christine R. Yano was given one major correction by Hello Kitty owners Sanrio (via LA Times):

“Hello Kitty is not a cat. She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She's never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it's called Charmmy Kitty.”

Indeed, after rigorously applying a variation of the “Duck test,” it all became clear: she only kind of looks like a cat, she doesn't walk like a cat, and she doesn't talk like a cat (although I can't recall her ever making a noise). She's also, according to Yano, British. Huh.

Fear not, though! We did the research, and Keroppi is still a frog.

15 posted on 08/27/2014 8:21:51 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission (Hello Spooky Kitty! (Yes, I have daughters!))
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To: Sparklite

Nifty! Thanks for posting!


16 posted on 08/27/2014 8:22:46 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission; Salamander


17 posted on 08/27/2014 8:29:17 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Sparklite

I have it on good authority that it is NOT Schrodinger’s Cat! It belonged to someone else...


18 posted on 08/27/2014 8:29:43 PM PDT by coldoc
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To: Sparklite

They are neither alive, nor dead. We don’t know.


19 posted on 08/27/2014 8:30:40 PM PDT by occamrzr06 (A great life is but a series of dogs!)
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To: martin_fierro

Seriesly, this could be very important - imagine a completely undetectable radar equivalent. I would expect the military - every military - to be all over this.


20 posted on 08/27/2014 8:32:39 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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