Quantum Trickery: Testing Einstein's Strangest Theory - New York Times
They've just managed to put particles in the "cat state" which means they can spin in opposite directions at the same time. It's like being on and off, or dead and alive at the same time.
"It's a kind of funny situation," N. David Mermin of Cornell, who has called Einstein's spooky action "the closest thing we have to magic," said, referring to the recent results. "These are extremely difficult experiments that confirm elementary features of quantum mechanics." It would be more spectacular news, he said, if they had come out wrong.[emphasis mine]
Anton Zeilinger of the University of Vienna said that he thought, "The world is not as real as we think.
"My personal opinion is that the world is even weirder than what quantum physics tells us," he added.
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In physical life, your conscious mind is largely dependent upon the workings of your physical brain. The brain to some extent keeps the mind to a three dimensional focus. It orients you toward the environment in which you must operate, and it is because of the mind’s allegiance with the temporal brain that you perceive, for example, time as a series of moments.
The brain channels the information that the mind receives to your physical structure (the body) and because of this, physically speaking and in life as you think of it, the mind is to a large extent dependent on the brain’s growth and activity.
The brain is a camouflage pattern. It takes up space. It exists in time. The mind takes up no space, it does not have its basic existence in time. The reality of the inner universe does not take up space, nor does it have its basic existence in time.
Your camouflage universe, on the other hand, takes up space and has an
existence in time, but it is not the real and basic universe, any more than the brain is the mind.
The physical system is an illusion, but you must accept it and from your viewpoint try to understand the realities that exist beyond it.
In this physical existence you are learning how to handle the inexhaustible energy that is available to you. Some of your feelings and thoughts are translated into OBJECTS in a medium you call space. Others are translated into EVENTS in a medium you call time. Space and time concepts (exist in physical realm) are illusions. They exist only in the physical realm. Since you are a part of "being," then you in effect give yourself the life that is being lived through you.
You cannot objectify the inner portions of your own identity, and therefore you do not perceive them. So much of your energy is used in the physical productions that you cannot afford to perceive any reality but your own.
I love this stuff. Where did you find this article, Morgaine?
Thanks for pointing out this story. Way cool. I wish my dad (a Clemson physics prof) were still around to see how physics is still progressing. Alas, he changed states in 1992.
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