The good news is reality exists. The bad is it’s even stranger than people thought

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Post by rms » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 4:28 AM UTC

The good news is reality exists. The bad is it’s even stranger than people thought
economist.com

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Post by DaniFong » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 6:03 AM UTC

The paper is accessible at http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1625

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Post by koningrobot » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 9:14 AM UTC

Here's an article that says entanglement isn't all that weird: http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf. Admittedly, I'm not familiar enough with quantum mechanics to get it, but it's related and YMMV.

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Post by tdavis » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 9:42 AM UTC

koningrobot wrote: post #3

Here's an article that says entanglement isn't all that weird: http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf . Admittedly, I'm not familiar enough with quantum mechanics to get it, but it's related and YMMV.

I read (most of) that and, to my own surprise, actually understood the principle behind it. I recommend it as well.

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Post by anc2020 » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 11:15 AM UTC

koningrobot wrote: post #3

Here's an article that says entanglement isn't all that weird: http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf . Admittedly, I'm not familiar enough with quantum mechanics to get it, but it's related and YMMV.

Read this and thought it made sense, but I'm not physicist. I'd really like to know what actual physicists make of this.

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Post by eru » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 12:47 PM UTC

Don't you agree that clicking on a link should automatically cause the target to be rendered on the best suited available device?

I.e. I had to prevent myself from reading the article online, so that I can read it in my dead tree edition later on in the train.

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Post by grouchyOldGuy » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 1:15 PM UTC

DaniFong wrote: post #2

The paper is accessible at http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1625

But if I read the paper, won't I change its outcome?

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Post by incomethax » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 2:40 PM UTC

grouchyOldGuy wrote: post #7

DaniFong wrote: post #2

The paper is accessible at http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1625

But if I read the paper, won't I change its outcome?

Only if the paper is a quantum state

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Post by lisper » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 3:43 PM UTC

anc2020 wrote: post #5

koningrobot wrote: post #3

Here's an article that says entanglement isn't all that weird: http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf . Admittedly, I'm not familiar enough with quantum mechanics to get it, but it's related and YMMV.

Read this and thought it made sense, but I'm not physicist. I'd really like to know what actual physicists make of this.

Back in the day, I submitted this paper to the American Journal of Physics. It was rejected, not because it was incorrect, but because it didn't say anything new. If you like I can post the review.

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Post by michaelk » Fri, Mar 06, 2009, 5:11 PM UTC

The Economist + Physics = excellent