I read the article and then tried entangling two blue couches. It = worked. From across a 7 meter wide room I was able to rotate one = couch with my hands and the other couch counter-rotated. I then lost = conciousness ( i think ). Later I woke up and had cheese and wine = with my best friend. Talk about success ! cc > On Jun 8, 2008, at 8:11 PM, Apptech wrote: > > This is not a joke. > >> From paper below: > > " ... Our result suggests that giving up the concept of locality = > is not sufficient to be consistent with quantum experiments, unless = > certain intuitive features of realism are abandoned." > > ______________ > > Take 1: (relatively) Recent experiments indicate that the strong = > intuitive impression that reality exists prior to a 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 measured. > Cut ... > > Take 3: Please do adjust your sets to make reality occur. > > To be valid QM (Quantum Mechanics) requires that one or both of the = > following is true: > > - Reality is created by the measurement process > > - "Action at a distance" is valid - whereby objects at a = > substantial distance are instantaneously linked (aka Einsteins = > "Spooky action" which he denied existed.) > > In the prior tests of "Bell's inequality" action at a distance was = > shown true. > > Now, it seems, the unreality of reality has also been demonstrated. > > Enjoy! :-) > > ________________________________ > > While the ability to produce and measure "Quantum entanglement" is = > now well accepted, the implications of this were not clear enough = > to properly shake the foundations of common sense. (QM does this = > well enough already all by itself but people have managed to ignore = > it so far). > > Now a PhD student and colleagues have carried out 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.html > > Simon Gr=F6blacher1,2, Tomasz Paterek3,4, Rainer Kaltenbaek1, aslav = > Brukner1,2, Marek ukowski1,3, Markus Aspelmeyer1,2 & Anton = > Zeilinger1,2 > > Nature 446, 871-875 (19 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/nature05677; = > Received 22 December 2006; Accepted 13 February 2007 > Most working scientists hold fast to the concept of 'realism'=97a = > viewpoint according to which an external reality exists independent = > of observation. But quantum physics has shattered some of our = > cornerstone beliefs. According to Bell's theorem, any theory that = > is based on the joint assumption of realism and locality (meaning = > that local events cannot be affected by actions in space-like = > separated regions) is at variance with certain quantum predictions. = > Experiments with entangled pairs of particles have amply confirmed = > these quantum predictions, thus rendering local realistic theories = > untenable. Maintaining realism as a fundamental concept would = > therefore necessitate the introduction of 'spooky' actions that = > defy locality. Here we show by both theory and experiment that a = > broad and rather reasonable class of such non-local realistic = > theories is incompatible with experimentally observable quantum = > correlations. In the experiment, we measure previously untested = > correlations between two entangled photons, and show that these = > correlations violate an inequality proposed by Leggett for non- = > local realistic theories. Our result suggests that giving up the = > concept of locality is not sufficient to be consistent with quantum = > experiments, unless certain intuitive features of realism are = > abandoned. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist