Comments on: Le Tour 2017 – Stage 14

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 22:28:01 +0000

Yeah, but people who love triangles are certainly less of a hazard than love triangles in my view. 😉

This generally involves photons which are sitting on the edge between two states [particle/wave] so we may be sampling two points in an ultra long wave, rather than two separate particles. We may lack the instruments to measure what is going on because everything we currently have is constrained by the speed of light. If that makes any sense. We inhabit a universe that exists between absolute zero and the speed of light and can’t know what exists beyond those limits.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:50:02 +0000

Oh, I could never trust anyone who loves triangles!

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:44:02 +0000

I am reading Musser’s book, Spooky Action at a Distance; the title is what Einstein reportedly said when someone first described the phenomenon to him. I think somewhere or other we have misconstructed the notion of “distance,” and somehow those particles are really at the same place at the same time, i.e., effectively the same particle. I’ll certainly concede the “spooky” attribute, though.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:44:52 +0000

Quantum entanglement is really ‘magick’ on a molecular scale. I understand what they are staying but still get a headache trying to get my mind around it. I would be thrilled if I could get the speed I paid for without having to reset my system every other day.

I never really trusted Pig … We ended up with a gerbil controlling a zombie…

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 11:40:12 +0000

OT, I awoke today long before dawn’s crack and read a day-old news story about Chinese scientists who successfully teleported about 900 pairs of quantum-entangled particles from Earth to a low-orbit satellite. 900 successes out of about a million attempts may not seem like very many, but it was enough to keep alive hopes of a future internet with vastly improved speed, so I thought it was the best news of the new day.

But then I switched on TV to PBS, which was rebroadcasting last year’s Peg+Cat special, in which Peg and her Cat are tasked by the President with devising a means “to save our planet from a pig’s behind.” I can only hope Robert Mueller was watching…