<meta charset="utf-8">Adrian wrote:<div><br></div><div>>This is a great example of what's wrong with most news reporting about quantum<br>mechanics: lots of fluff about "it's spooky" and "it's weird."<<div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<div>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Darren<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/30 Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
This is a great example of what's wrong with most news reporting about quantum<br>mechanics: lots of fluff about "it's spooky" and "it's wierd", very little reporting on<br>what the actual breakthrough actually is. Moreover, the breakthrough is coded in<br>
metaphor and simile - which leads to public misunderstanding.<br><br>For example, this seems to be the main cause of the misunderstanding that<br>entanglement means FTL communication. It is true that you can determine what<br>
one member of a pair is, and therefore conclude what the other member must be<br>even if it's a long ways away - but any information you encode with it still has to<br>travel at light speed or less. Even if you encode the information with an entangled<br>
bit, the information (encoded or otherwise) still had to travel normally to get to<br>the other party. If you and another party pre-arrange to act depending on the<br>polarity of a bit sent from a source midway between you, that pre-arrangement<br>
had to travel at light speed, and you could act the same depending on other<br>information sent from a source midway between you.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/30 Darren Greer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darren.greer3@gmail.com" target="_blank">darren.greer3@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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