November 22, 2005

Quantum Entanglement made simple. Plus: Heisenberg's wave packet reconsidered not made simple.
posted by Chyren 19 years ago
  • This is your best post in some time, in my humble. Great primer on the fundamentals -- the animation on the double-slit experiment alone is superb, the best model I've seen online. Thanks bunches.
  • Uh.. that paper is written by the guy behind a certain site that, well, its crank-tastic (NSFW). I can't judge his work right now, but he seems to think that some Chinese kids can teleport, that the US and Israeli governments created 9/11, and he wrote a paper claiming to have found a violation of the "no cloning" rule (if I read his work correctly). If true, he should be given a Nobel, but this is extremely unlikely.
  • Oh, and he writes that faster than light communication is possible which violates both quantum mechanics and Einstein's relativity, separately and together.
  • That first link is a great introduction to the subject, though. Nice find, Chyren. Sorry for crapping on this post and commenting 3 times in a row. I'm an ass, sometimes.
  • No, you arent, I was well aware of the crank factor, I included it because I thought it sort of amusing in a totally obtuse way compared to the first link. Quantum uncertainty at a macroscopic level was the tickler for me. ;) Cheers for pointing me at his homepage, though.
  • oh, and thankyew middleclasstool. Yeh, it's a keeper, alright.
  • "Electrons do not eat apples to make a quantum leap (their mouths are too small)." Hah! I enjoy this. More people need to understand these things.
  • That was fun, but now I can't find the cat.
  • Oh, and he writes that faster than light communication is possible which violates both quantum mechanics and Einstein's relativity, separately and together. We just don't know. And since I'm no physicist, just for the record (crank or not), I'll go with Arthur C. Clarke, or even Asimov's Corollary: "If, however, an elderly and distinguished scientist says that something is impossible, and the general public loudly disagrees, then the scientist is, after all, most probably right." You've got to break a few eggs to make an s-matrix.
  • That was fun, but now I can't find the cat. Crack me up, Jeraboam! That was great. MonkeyFilter: Quantum uncertainty at a macroscopic level. Good post, Mr. Chyren, sir.
  • I will come back to it after i have composed myself about the 'light interfering with itself' - the mental image formed after translating via euphemistic journalism terms undid me!
  • Oh and was that Schroedinger's cat or Heinleins?