Sunday, October 4, 2009

Supersizing quantum behavior

Read Supersizing Quantum Behavior @seedmag http://bit.ly/9SvPl Discovering quantum weirdness on a macro scale has huge implications.

Basically, everything around us is governed by Newtonian laws, laws that predict objects will act in very less than strange ways. Take it to the quantum scale and all sorts of weird things happen; for example, an atom may exist in two states at once, they may possibly communicate over great distances faster than the speed of light or (as some experiments hope to demonstrate) even across time. There's a whole host of weirdness at the quantum level, things that, if they occured on the macro scale, would be considered nothing less than paranormal. The argument against quantum mysticism was never that it didn't make sense at the quantum scale. The arguments have always centered around the premise that quantum effects don't scale up. Supersizing quantum behavior, even a small Newtonian fail, gives a tiny (quantum?) bit of plausibility to the ideas presented in books like The Holographic Universe and films like What the Bleep Do We Know?

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