> http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/physicists-prove-teleportation-energy-theoretically-possible
>
If you're as much of a Neal Stephenson fan as I am and have read The
Baroque Cycle as many times as I have, you will have reflected on the
overwhelming degree to which Newton's concept of atoms
(notwithstanding that it didn't anticipate sub-atomic particles) has
been ascendent over Leibniz' Monadology for 300 years.
I'm good with Newtonian physics. I grok the Bohr Atom. I'm even okay
with the probabilistic nature of the wave equation that makes sense of
chemical bonds and the scanning tunneling electron microscope
But I'm too stupid or too old to get quantum entanglement. But wait!
Leibniz would love it, because each of his Monads was supposed, in
some sense, to be continuously *aware* of all the others. Do we have
to lose string theory (which seems to have shingled out onto the
fog), back up three centuries and review Monadology?
According to science writer Dennis Overbye, the Higgs boson (which
the collider has been designed to observe) "might be so abhorrent
to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and
stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler
who goes back in time to kill his grandfather." [1]
Maybe the Higgs boson just, you know, is *aware* that its own
instantiation would be catastrophic and, you know, refuses to allow
it. (That just shows how well I get quantum entanglement. Ho hum.)
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming,
- Mike
[1]
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/might-higgs-boson-be-a-time-traveling-neer-do-well-out-to-destr/
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