Dr. Quantum
Mind = Blown!
posted by What The Hill? at
5:17 PM
Saturday, April 12, 2008
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It gets better. "If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody is around to hear it fall, does it make a sound?" The answer is: "No, because the tree doesn't exist - there isn't an observer around to collapse it's wave function into existence." This also leads to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which states that you can only know either the speed, or location, of something - not both at the same time. Science has proven for sure that you can't prove anything for sure. Next what you do is make a Quantum computer, where you put a bunch of quantum bits together, ask them an impossibly complex question, and then observe the bits causing their wave function to collapse - and they instantly collapse into the answer. Encryptions that are impossible to break today will soon be broken in milliseconds. So to beat that you transmit information via quantum entangled bits, which even though they can be billions of miles apart, will be able to "speak" instantly and mirror each other no matter what (the "spooky action at a distance" that Einstein hated so much), and if someone tries to observe the bits to steal the information, the bits collapse and you immediately become aware of the fact. Don't even get me started.
I stared to read your response, then my brain stared to bleed.
i hear ya 'what the hill'!!
Okay I watched that thinking it would have something to do with the show Quantum Leap, I loved that show. But now I have to go lay down since my brain hurts. Thanks
Colin, I have actually been reading up on this in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics in One Dimension. So here are my thoughts; Applying these points to an electron in an atom, nevertheless, we see that the electron is no longer a point in space moving along a definite path, but a cloud of probabilities. In other words, one cannot say that an electron will be in this position at this point of time, but one can only say like this: 'It is 95% probable that the electron will be at this position at this point of time.' Similarly, to every point in a light wave we can attach a numerical probability (per unit time interval) that a photon can be detected in any small volume centred on that point, and light is viewed as a probability wave. Hopefully this touches on Brev point.
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