It keeps me from having to reinvent the wheel.
Posted on 10/08/2022 11:31:43 AM PDT by Cronos
One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half century is that the universe is not locally real. “Real,” meaning that objects have definite properties independent of observation—an apple can be red even when no one is looking; “local” means objects can only be influenced by their surroundings, and any influence cannot travel faster than light. Investigation shows objects are not influenced solely by surroundings and may also lack definite properties prior2 measurement
...pairs of particles are sent off in different directions from a common source, targeted for two observers, Alice and Bob, each stationed at opposite ends of the solar system. Quantum mechanics dictates that it is impossible to know the spin, a quantum property of individual particles prior to measurement. When Alice measures one of her particles, she finds its spin to be either up or down. Her results are random, and yet, when she measures up, she instantly knows Bob’s corresponding particle must be down. .
...But under quantum mechanics, particles are not like socks, and only when measured do they settle on a spin of up or down. This is EPR’s key conundrum: If Alice’s particles lack a spin until measurement, how then when they whiz past Neptune do they know what Bob’s particles will do as they fly out of the solar system in the other direction? Each time Alice measures, she effectively quizzes her particle on what Bob will get if he flips a coin: up, or down? The odds of correctly predicting this even 200 times in a row are 1 in 1060—a number greater than all the atoms in the solar system. Yet despite the billions of kilometers that separate the particle pairs, quantum mechanics says Alice’s particles can keep correctly predicting, as though they were telepathically connected to Bob’s particles.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
“Ted’s-ticles.”
“Snort” Well played!...I see you like your humor dry and shaken...not stirred!
They still taste distinctively like a granny smith when eaten in the dark...LOL!
Non Sequitur to the discussion of course...I’ll go away now!
Stay!
There are too many big words being used here anyway.
Have ever considered having a thought of your own, or is parroting "experts" your only talent?
Is there a reason you’re so rude to me? Have I offended you somehow?
I just get tired of people who know everything.
Well, that’s not me…I certainly didn’t mean to come off as a know-it-all.
For that, I apologize.
I apologize too.
I was expressing thoughts I had considered for a long time, knowing that Godophobes would be offended.
We have no scientific knowledge of consciousness. The globaltarians want to hijack our brains and turn us into remote controlled robots.
So how much thought have you put into this, and how much was just bowing to “scientific experts?”
It keeps me from having to reinvent the wheel.
Not quite...
2200 = 1.6069380442589902755419620923412 e+60
Well, for myself, I love reading books about physics, especially books about quantum mechanics.
I’ve read probably 40 books on science/QM in the last year or two, plus countless articles on it, as well as a few youtube lectures, though I’m not really a fan of watching people talk.
Which hardly makes me someone who knows physics, of course! As Feynman said, anyone who claims to understand QM doesn’t understand it.
Nah, I’m just a workaday guy (I work for a printer) who enjoys reading about science and physics but has no formal background in it.
My mom was an English professor and she was friends with a physicist at UVI who used to come visit us all the time. He was with the Manhattan project when young, and I just found him fascinating. His conversations were so far above me it was astounding, but it still triggered a life-long interest.
So, I’m certainly not a know-it-all, far from it, and I apologize for having sounded that way!
It looked like your response was a copy-and-paste job, which is what irritated me. It was straight out of Wikipedia.
Oh, it was cut-and-pasted out of Wikipedia! The reason was because I usually post to Freep using my iPhone and i find it difficult to use its virtual keyboard, so oftentimes I have copied and pasted stuff that was too laborious to type out!
But I’d been fascinated by entanglement for many, many years and I’ve been reading about the various experiments to test it out, especially the Canary Islands experiment, where information about each separate half of an entangled particle was virtually instantaneously transmitted across two measurement sites: faster than the speed of light!
I just thought it’d be quicker to paste said results rather than laboriously typing them out on a virtual keyboard!
But I totally get your objections, now!
See ya, I gotta get back to work!
UCI, (UC/Irvine) not UVI!
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