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This is not a joke.

>From paper below:

    " ... Our result suggests that giving up the concept of=20
locality is not sufficient to be consistent with quantum=20
experiments, unless certain intuitive features of realism=20
are abandoned."

______________

Take 1:    (relatively) Recent experiments indicate that the=20
strong intuitive impression that reality exists prior to a=20
measurement being made is an illusion. Cut ...

Take 2:    Nothing exists as perceived until we perceive it.
or             Nothing exists as measured until it is=20
measured.
    Cut ...

Take 3:     Please do adjust your sets to make reality=20
occur.

To be valid QM (Quantum Mechanics) requires that one or both=20
of the following is true:

- Reality is created by the measurement process

- "Action at a distance" is valid - whereby objects at a=20
substantial distance are instantaneously linked (aka=20
Einsteins "Spooky action" which he denied existed.)

In the prior tests of "Bell's inequality" action at a=20
distance was shown true.

Now, it seems, the unreality of reality has also been=20
demonstrated.

Enjoy! :-)

________________________________

While the ability to produce and measure "Quantum=20
entanglement" is now well accepted, the implications of this=20
were not clear enough to properly shake the foundations of=20
common sense. (QM does this well enough already all by=20
itself but people have managed to ignore it so far).

Now a PhD student and colleagues have carried out=20
experiments which demonstrate that reality aint so.
Good write up

    http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/06/the_reality_tests_1.php?page=
=3Dall&p=3Dy

_________

A 2007 paper from the man -

        http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7138/abs/nature05677.h=
tml

Simon Gr=F6blacher1,2, Tomasz Paterek3,4, Rainer Kaltenbaek1,=20
aslav Brukner1,2, Marek ukowski1,3, Markus Aspelmeyer1,2 &=20
Anton Zeilinger1,2

Nature 446, 871-875 (19 April 2007) |=20
doi:10.1038/nature05677; Received 22 December 2006; Accepted=20
13 February 2007
Most working scientists hold fast to the concept of=20
'realism'=97a viewpoint according to which an external reality=20
exists independent of observation. But quantum physics has=20
shattered some of our cornerstone beliefs. According to=20
Bell's theorem, any theory that is based on the joint=20
assumption of realism and locality (meaning that local=20
events cannot be affected by actions in space-like separated=20
regions) is at variance with certain quantum predictions.=20
Experiments with entangled pairs of particles have amply=20
confirmed these quantum predictions, thus rendering local=20
realistic theories untenable. Maintaining realism as a=20
fundamental concept would therefore necessitate the=20
introduction of 'spooky' actions that defy locality. Here we=20
show by both theory and experiment that a broad and rather=20
reasonable class of such non-local realistic theories is=20
incompatible with experimentally observable quantum=20
correlations. In the experiment, we measure previously=20
untested correlations between two entangled photons, and=20
show that these correlations violate an inequality proposed=20
by Leggett for non-local realistic theories. Our result=20
suggests that giving up the concept of locality is not=20
sufficient to be consistent with quantum experiments, unless=20
certain intuitive features of realism are abandoned.


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