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originally posted by: wildespace
Trouble is, quantum entanglement is an illusion. [...] "Entangled" particles accuire their respective state from the beginning.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: wildespace
Trouble is, quantum entanglement is an illusion. [...] "Entangled" particles accuire their respective state from the beginning.
The best explanation I ever saw about it was on a TV show where they said that "entangled" particles are more like splitting up a pair of gloves and putting each glove into a closed box without knowing which one went in which box. Then you fly one of the boxes to Alpha Centauri and open it. Right hand glove. Look in the one on Earth. Left hand glove. But if the box on Alpha Centauri has a left hand glove in it, the one on Earth miraculously "changes" to a right hand glove! Duh.
Lol nice one
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: wildespace
Trouble is, quantum entanglement is an illusion. [...] "Entangled" particles accuire their respective state from the beginning.
The best explanation I ever saw about it was on a TV show where they said that "entangled" particles are more like splitting up a pair of gloves and putting each glove into a closed box without knowing which one went in which box. Then you fly one of the boxes to Alpha Centauri and open it. Right hand glove. Look in the one on Earth. Left hand glove. But if the box on Alpha Centauri has a left hand glove in it, the one on Earth miraculously "changes" to a right hand glove! Duh.
Brilliant, you got it right
originally posted by: penroc3
a reply to: Hyperboles
like mr.freeze from batman? if they are all dead who will pull the trigger?
Brilliant, you got it right
originally posted by: penroc3
a reply to: Hyperboles
like mr.freeze from batman? if they are all dead who will pull the trigger?
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: wildespace
Trouble is, quantum entanglement is an illusion. [...] "Entangled" particles accuire their respective state from the beginning.
The best explanation I ever saw about it was on a TV show where they said that "entangled" particles are more like splitting up a pair of gloves and putting each glove into a closed box without knowing which one went in which box. Then you fly one of the boxes to Alpha Centauri and open it. Right hand glove. Look in the one on Earth. Left hand glove. But if the box on Alpha Centauri has a left hand glove in it, the one on Earth miraculously "changes" to a right hand glove! Duh.
originally posted by: moebius
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: wildespace
Trouble is, quantum entanglement is an illusion. [...] "Entangled" particles accuire their respective state from the beginning.
The best explanation I ever saw about it was on a TV show where they said that "entangled" particles are more like splitting up a pair of gloves and putting each glove into a closed box without knowing which one went in which box. Then you fly one of the boxes to Alpha Centauri and open it. Right hand glove. Look in the one on Earth. Left hand glove. But if the box on Alpha Centauri has a left hand glove in it, the one on Earth miraculously "changes" to a right hand glove! Duh.
That is not a good explanation imho.
Imagine you have pairs of (entangled) spinning coins. Then you separate the pairs and fly one half to Alpha Centauri. Whe you arrive there, you stop (measure) the coins and get either head or tail with a 50% chance. You do the same on Earth and the result is completely random too.
But when you compare the results of Earth coins with the ones on Alpha Centauri, you'll notice that they always have the opposite value. If the Alpha Centauri coin shows head the Earth coin will show tail.
originally posted by: moebius
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: wildespace
Trouble is, quantum entanglement is an illusion. [...] "Entangled" particles accuire their respective state from the beginning.
The best explanation I ever saw about it was on a TV show where they said that "entangled" particles are more like splitting up a pair of gloves and putting each glove into a closed box without knowing which one went in which box. Then you fly one of the boxes to Alpha Centauri and open it. Right hand glove. Look in the one on Earth. Left hand glove. But if the box on Alpha Centauri has a left hand glove in it, the one on Earth miraculously "changes" to a right hand glove! Duh.
That is not a good explanation imho.
Imagine you have pairs of (entangled) spinning coins. Then you separate the pairs and fly one half to Alpha Centauri. Whe you arrive there, you stop (measure) the coins and get either head or tail with a 50% chance. You do the same on Earth and the result is completely random too.
But when you compare the results of Earth coins with the ones on Alpha Centauri, you'll notice that they always have the opposite value. If the Alpha Centauri coin shows head the Earth coin will show tail.
originally posted by: wildespace
originally posted by: moebius
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: wildespace
Trouble is, quantum entanglement is an illusion. [...] "Entangled" particles accuire their respective state from the beginning.
The best explanation I ever saw about it was on a TV show where they said that "entangled" particles are more like splitting up a pair of gloves and putting each glove into a closed box without knowing which one went in which box. Then you fly one of the boxes to Alpha Centauri and open it. Right hand glove. Look in the one on Earth. Left hand glove. But if the box on Alpha Centauri has a left hand glove in it, the one on Earth miraculously "changes" to a right hand glove! Duh.
That is not a good explanation imho.
Imagine you have pairs of (entangled) spinning coins. Then you separate the pairs and fly one half to Alpha Centauri. Whe you arrive there, you stop (measure) the coins and get either head or tail with a 50% chance. You do the same on Earth and the result is completely random too.
But when you compare the results of Earth coins with the ones on Alpha Centauri, you'll notice that they always have the opposite value. If the Alpha Centauri coin shows head the Earth coin will show tail.
How does an unmeasured particle compare to a spinning coin? Does it constantly flip its quantum state back and forth?
That particles out there in space have certain quantum states (such as the spin) is evident from the 21-centimeter radiation from interstellar hydrogen. It occurs when the electron in a slightly "excited" hydrogen atom flips its spin direction to allow the atom to be in a lower energy state.
Ergo, unmeasured particles don't exist in a fuzzy superposition of states.
originally posted by: moebius
The spinning here means that the probabilities to measure head or tail are equal.
Can someone please break all this down in average joe/laymans terms?
No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!