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Major Scientific Leap: Quantum Microscope Created That Can See the Impossible
https://scitechdaily.com ^ | JUNE 9, 2021 | By UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

Posted on 06/19/2021 11:51:58 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

In a major scientific leap, University of Queensland researchers have created a quantum microscope that can reveal biological structures that would otherwise be impossible to see.

This paves the way for applications in biotechnology, and could extend far beyond this into areas ranging from navigation to medical imaging.

The microscope is powered by the science of quantum entanglement, an effect Einstein described as “spooky interactions at a distance.”

Quantum Microscope Up Close UQ’s quantum microscope, ready to zero in on previously impossible-to-see biology. Credit: The University of Queensland

Professor Warwick Bowen, from UQ’s Quantum Optics Lab and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS), said it was the first entanglement-based sensor with performance beyond the best possible existing technology.

“This breakthrough will spark all sorts of new technologies — from better navigation systems to better MRI machines, you name it,” Professor Bowen said.

“Entanglement is thought to lie at the heart of a quantum revolution. We’ve finally demonstrated that sensors that use it can supersede existing, non-quantum technology.

“This is exciting — it’s the first proof of the paradigm-changing potential of entanglement for sensing.”

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: microscope; quantum; quantummicroscope
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To: RomanSoldier19

Comments are hysterical. Sciencey types being quite taken with themselves.


21 posted on 06/19/2021 12:22:45 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Any comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: SkyDancer

I looked it up. Schrodinger had too much idle time on his hands.


22 posted on 06/19/2021 12:24:47 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: ifinnegan

It’s called superpossimible.


23 posted on 06/19/2021 12:26:12 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: RomanSoldier19
No match for a Smelloscope.


24 posted on 06/19/2021 12:27:08 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: amnestynone

I think Congress should make “Quantum Leap” a National Holiday.


25 posted on 06/19/2021 12:27:09 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: Jeff Chandler
I shot Schrödinger’s cat with Chekhov’s gun.

I assume you mean a phaser. 'Gun' is a rather antiquated term in my century.

26 posted on 06/19/2021 12:43:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: Cold Heart

Okay, got it now.


27 posted on 06/19/2021 12:49:16 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: billorites

I always think of the Big Bang Theory when I see Schrodinger’s cat mentioned.


28 posted on 06/19/2021 1:07:24 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: RomanSoldier19

Staying off the class clown agenda, I think this is pretty cool and interesting. Thank you.


29 posted on 06/19/2021 1:11:44 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Very little productivity about it. Always kills a lot of very interesting threads.


30 posted on 06/19/2021 1:13:23 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Jeff Chandler
I shot Schrödinger’s cat with Chekhov’s gun.

Much like shooting fish in a barrel, you shoot cats in a box.

31 posted on 06/19/2021 1:14:16 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: RomanSoldier19; All
Checked the link and saw a picture of the team that developed it.

The young lady is beautiful!

No need for makeup and a fantastic smile!

Thats my kind of lab partner!

(made you look!)

32 posted on 06/19/2021 1:16:13 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: RomanSoldier19
I love this technical diagram because t made the complex understandable to me (thanks, Rush!). Without it, I would have been completely lost.


33 posted on 06/19/2021 1:52:42 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
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To: Openurmind

In my opinion the most profound and significant question in Biology and maybe even Physics is the one posed by Dr. Michael Levin of Tufts University. His research has shown that individual cells communicate through electrochemical ion channels to construct the complex tissues, organs, and structures like the brain using a shared model of a completed body as a form or template.

They generate proteins from DNA to make the concrete of biosystems while continuously trying to reduce the error between what they have constructed and the abstract information stored in the model.

The question that Levin is trying to ask is “How and where do biological systems encode and store this model?” This model has the properties of readable writeable memory in a computer that connects with the cells through an electrochemical network but hasn’t been detected or measured by any potential measuring device in existence. If the bits of this computer are created by biological systems using quantum entanglement at a molecular level it might be observable using the technology in the article. Once the model can be detected and decoded it could be “reprogrammed” to cure disease or regenerate organs, limbs, and possibly even the brain. This would open the door to a form of immortality that is unimaginable today.


34 posted on 06/19/2021 1:55:46 PM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: Dave Wright

“This would open the door to...”

A great many things. Things we can’t imagine today, probably.

The quantum cryptography the Chinese are working on is also something. They’ve a satellite up they’re testing with.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-reaches-new-milestone-in-space-based-quantum-communications/


35 posted on 06/19/2021 2:16:50 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: RomanSoldier19

And they are still unable to locate Kamala’s brain.


36 posted on 06/19/2021 2:19:30 PM PDT by Colo9250 (Demand justice for Ashley Babbitt.)
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To: Dave Wright

And I agree. I do believe there is indeed and unseen “intelligence” at the atomic and subatomic level that we are just coming to understand.

It is interesting stuff to contemplate. Thank you for sharing that. I will chase it down and read more. :)


37 posted on 06/19/2021 2:20:30 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Einstein didn't use the phrase "spooky action at a distance" to describe quantum entanglement, he used it to deride the very idea because he thought it was beyond the realm of the possible. He wasn't describing the process, he was mocking the idea.
38 posted on 06/19/2021 2:22:14 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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39 posted on 06/19/2021 2:25:30 PM PDT by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I understand it can see graphene doing the impossible.


40 posted on 06/19/2021 2:30:20 PM PDT by Stentor
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