Sunday, September 22, 2013

More Quantum Entanglement

Wikipedia, bless its heart, has a delicious article about this, and it involves mystery, suspense, Uncle Albert, and even old man Schrodinger of 'Schrodinger's Cat' fame, and all you wannabe physicists can find it here! The rest of us can find it there too, and it's practically guaranteed to get the cobwebs out of your brain.
Would a nice old guy like me lie to a sweet young thing like you? Check it out! 

Here's what I meant by 'delicious' above... here's a quote from the article:

In a 2013 experiment, entanglement swapping has been used to create entanglement between photons that never coexisted in time, thus demonstrating that "the nonlocality of quantum mechanics, as manifested by entanglement, does not apply only to particles with spacelike separation, but also to particles with timelike [i.e., temporal] separation".[29]

Is this going in the direction it seems to be suggesting? If these guys connect all the dots here, could we eventually end up with time travel? And with instantaneous long distance communications as a preliminary result?  Days like this, I wish I'd stayed in school longer - much longer! It might have been fun.

 I mentioned Schrodinger's Cat..... so it's time for a video:


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