[ExI] CQT Researcher Uncovers Quantitative Link Between Quantum Non-Locality and Uncertainty

[Darren Greer]

Adrian wrote:

>This is a great example of what's wrong with most news reporting about
quantum
mechanics: lots of fluff about "it's spooky" and "it's weird."<


I changed the headline for exi and substituted quantitative for weirdness
and specified the phenomena they were discussing for that  very reason. I
don't mind 'spooky,' because I'm always reminded of Einstein when it's said.

I'm not a physicist, but I think it's important to remember that these
things seem "weird" only to those versed in at least the basic science. To
someone who didn't know anything about the speed of light constant and why
it can't be violated, it wouldn't seem weird at all.  Just more goofy
science stuff, by guys and gals with nothing better to do with their time.

Darren

2010/11/30 Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com>

> This is a great example of what's wrong with most news reporting about
> quantum
> mechanics: lots of fluff about "it's spooky" and "it's wierd", very little
> reporting on
> what the actual breakthrough actually is.  Moreover, the breakthrough is
> coded in
> metaphor and simile - which leads to public misunderstanding.
>
> For example, this seems to be the main cause of the misunderstanding that
> entanglement means FTL communication.  It is true that you can determine
> what
> one member of a pair is, and therefore conclude what the other member must
> be
> even if it's a long ways away - but any information you encode with it
> still has to
> travel at light speed or less.  Even if you encode the information with an
> entangled
> bit, the information (encoded or otherwise) still had to travel normally to
> get to
> the other party.  If you and another party pre-arrange to act depending on
> the
> polarity of a bit sent from a source midway between you, that
> pre-arrangement
> had to travel at light speed, and you could act the same depending on other
> information sent from a source midway between you.
>
> 2010/11/30 Darren Greer <darren.greer3 at gmail.com>
>
>> http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/191110_sciencenews.php
>>
>>
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