After reading this I looked up some quantum stuff. Pretty far out.
I now have a very good excuse for those piles of scrap I have created in
my old career as a machinist. The materiel was scrap to start with and I
unwittingly was only removing the non scrap parts of the material. Long live
science!.
The Silent Observer wrote:
> Randall Clague wrote:
> >
> > It's getting to the point that all the humans have to supply is
> > intelligence. It's not magic *yet* - but this ol' boy can see it from
> > here. :-)
>
> See it? You can buy it, if you have a couple million bux handy. Last I
> heard, it was now routine in graduate level physics labs to detect an
> object without any actual interaction -- using quantum entanglement to
> detect if a photon that might have been directed in a particular
> direction might have interacted with something, even though no photon
> was actually routed that way. In at least one case I've read about,
> this effect was used to measure the thickness of a human hair.
>
> Did I say a couple million dollars? You can perform the simplest of
> quantum entanglement experiments with a small gas laser (diode lasers
> won't work, not enough coherence length), some trash bag plastic, and a
> high school optics lab set that uses aluminum extrusions for an optical
> bench. A sand table (for vibration isolation) is cheap, and the
> equipment on it can cost less than $1000.
>
> To me, that looks enough like magic to invoke Clarke's Law.
>
> --
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>
> -- Elvish proverb
>
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