Straight Line of the Day: Scientists Have Found a Loophole In Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, Which Means…

Straight Line of the Day: Scientists have found a loophole in Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which means…

Scientist find a loophole in Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
Live Science | 05/15/2021 | Ben Turner

At its simplest, entanglement describes the idea that two particles can have an intrinsic connection that persists no matter how far apart they are. The particles are ethereally coupled: measure something about one particle, such as its position, and you’ll also glean information about the position of its entangled partner; make a change to one particle and your actions will teleport a corresponding change to the other, all at speeds faster than the speed of light.

The scientists in the first experiment… placed tiny drums, each around 10 micrometers long, on a crystal chip, before supercooling them to near absolute zero. With the drums chilled, the chances of them interacting with something outside of the system was dramatically reduced, enabling the scientists to coax the drums into an entangled state, vibrating in sync as they were hit with regular pulses of microwaves.

A second team of researchers… in Finland set out to use their own quantum drum system to sidestep one of quantum physics’ strictest rules…

First introduced by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the principle sets a hard limit to the absolute accuracy we can obtain when measuring some of the physical properties of a particle. .. that at its smallest, most fundamental level the universe is a fuzzy and unpredictable beast, never permitting complete information about it to be known.

But the second team of researchers found a way around this. By hitting their quantum drum continuously with photons, or light particles, like they would a snare drum, the researchers were able to tune their drums into an entangled state. Then, instead of measuring each individual drum’s position and momentum, the researchers treated the entangled drums as if they were a single, combined drum, and measured the imaginary drum’s position without affecting its velocity.

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  1. At its simplest, entanglement describes the idea that two particles can have an intrinsic connection that persists no matter how far apart they are.

    Biden’s brain and an actual coherent thought are so far apart there is no entanglement.

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