A Mechanical Device Behaves as a Quantum System Right Before Your Eyes

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My brain hurts just from reading this, I think I would enjoy this concept more if I could understand it.

kryo correct me if I'm wrong but - nfms - essentially this machine could prove that you can both understand this article and not understand this article equally at the same time.

And you are both correct.

I love this article, whole heartedly. I don't think any words can explain it.

how about a video? =)

The heck with understanding the article. Look at the expression on the cats face!

It's saying that with quantum mechanics, you can never be absolutely certain of an event because it is all probability, but with a bunch of tiny quantum machines you could make a real life machine that we could all see and use (which is what they are saying they have done). So if we had this machine to observe in plain view, we would know its state, and it would no longer be a probability. We would know if the cat is dead or alive because we are no longer limited to the 'smallness' of the quantum world, because quantum would spill into our everyday life with something large enough to observe. If you really think about where this could go, a quantum machine could build another machine out of "thin air", as it would appear to us. Something quantum (too small to see) could do a job to create something that we can see. Hope this helps!

Pictures would be very nice.

What's the probability that said experiments will raise more questions than they answer? ;)

May I ask? Is English language dead or alive?

Both.

The solution to Schrodinger's Cat model is simple... I can think of several ways of determining if the Cat is alive or dead... take the box that the cat is in and shake it up... if you hear the cat cry it's alive... or take the box and place it into a vacume, now the state of the cat would be dead... problem solved and I never had to open the box :)

4chan is taking over the interwebs, spawning btards left and right.

Jeez, my head hurts from all this quantum possibility. Now I know how Nicholas Cage's character felt in that movie Next.

I broke into Schroedinger's apartment while he was away and found the box.

I shook the box and heard the cat bouncing on the sides.

I shook it harder, assuring that the g forces the cat would encounter as it decelerated against the sides of the box were three times what we know to be fatal to a cat. I kept this up for 20 minutes.

I left him a note.

"Your cat is definitely dead, dumb*ss."

Quantum uncertainty or not, there is one thing we can be absolutely certain about:

Cats love boxes!!

The idea about an object seeming to be in two places at the same time spawned the famous Schrödinger’s Cat story and there is a highly visual interpretation of this online at a site called The Quantum Tamers, along with clips on entanglement and other mysteries from the quantum world.

Some of the scientists from the new program are interviewed on MSNBC’s Cosmic Log about their views on quantum theory and the possibilities of futuristic quantum technologies. cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/03/17/2231022.aspx.

Their clips are here at a Perimeter Institute site. PI is a non-profit research and outreach centre dealing in areas of theoretical physics, including quantum information. www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Outreach/Quantum_Tamers/The_Quantum_Tamers/

All good food for thought if you are wanting some interesting visualizations to help learn more about the quantum world.

In the eyes of cats, all things belong to cats, so they must exist everywhere, all the time. Therefore they live in the quantum domain as well as our macro world. All I have to do is pop a can of cat food and he instantly materializes before it's even open!

So, what happened that could be observed with the naked eye? If they couldn't provide a picture, would it be nice if they had described it?

The paradox of schrodingers cat seems to be already a moot-point to me. The concept of being alive and dead instead of alive or dead applies too much to the idea of the organic world, where a paradox like that can exist, and if taken into grand scope, all of our bodies in everyday life are living and dying at the same time, i.e. skin cells, blood cells, and so on. The paradox seems to be explained away when you take the organic system out of the equation, regardless of the factors like poison gas. The cat is always dead and alive, as all organic life is, but take away the organic component and the atoms, well they are always there, in one state or another, and the basic state until we get further into subatomic structures is only existence or nonexistences. Qubits seem to be an exception that this rule does not apply to, that one exists in a state that the other is not in and visca versa...I don't know very much about this kind of stuff, any ideas?

reminds me of an old joke. "Schrodinger's cat walked into a bar... and didn't"

Beecher Bowers
www.beecherbowers.com

a diamond white dwarf star rings like a bell. If it were to emit quantum entangled light in all directions. then any objects that exist at the same distance whose radius is the same, would be able to exibit instaneous communication properties. The beauty of it would be that civilizations on opposite ends of a galaxy, or two civilizations in two different galaxies that are equidistant from the light source, would be able to communicate instantaneously using the existing river of light that may have been bathing both those civilizations for eons, waiting for them to develop the ability to detect it. In the latest telescopic representations of the universe, it exists as filament structures in a giant universal web. Wouldnt it be interesting if the filaments follow paths of quantum entanglement where the filiments are equidistant from civilizations that were able to detect each other, or even weirder, life forms that were not even conscious of their quantum connections; In this bizarre scenario, life on earth for example being bathed by quantum entangled light from a far away star, or a super nova even, when the light hits us at the same time it hits another planet, the qualities of that other planet affect us and them in a way which connects us.

Hmmm . Wonder why it had to be a cat. Why couldn't be Schrodinger's monkey or some kind of bug ? Cats are too cute for this.
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