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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 12952469 times)

Amperzand

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #109230 on: September 13, 2016, 02:47:45 am »

Definitely a better way to convey my meaning is "Gravity manipulation". :V Sorry about that.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #109231 on: September 13, 2016, 02:54:41 am »

Technically still true since we don't know at the most basic level why gravity works, while we do know quantum entanglement doesn't carry information.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #109232 on: September 13, 2016, 02:59:59 am »

...You know, I think I'd still say quantum entanglement communication is still harder, since we have no goddamn idea if artificial/antigravity is impossible
while we do know quantum entanglement doesn't carry information.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #109233 on: September 13, 2016, 04:11:39 am »

I was under the impression it did, but not in a usable way.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #109234 on: September 13, 2016, 04:20:56 am »

Temperature is already over 100F in my back garden. It's still morning. Admittedly, my thermometer is in the sun, but still.
Normal temperature this day of the year is 68F.
I can't find my behind. I think it has sweated off. Or maybe I'm sitting on it. Can't think clearly with these temperatures.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #109235 on: September 13, 2016, 04:22:21 am »

Temperature is already over 100F in my back garden. It's still morning. Admittedly, my thermometer is in the sun, but still.
Normal temperature this day of the year is 68F.
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« Reply #109236 on: September 13, 2016, 04:32:38 am »

Strange that you're so warm. I woke up very cold this morning.

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« Reply #109237 on: September 13, 2016, 04:34:27 am »

I was under the impression it did, but not in a usable way.

"Another particle somewhere is known to have an opposite state to this one's" doesn't actually count as information (it's no more information than knowing they were entangled, anyway).

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« Reply #109238 on: September 13, 2016, 05:05:41 am »

That's probably it, yeah.
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http://www.collinsdictionary.com

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #109239 on: September 13, 2016, 06:40:39 am »

I don't watch much American television so I'm not entirely sure if this is common.

I mean, the last time I saw something so ridiculous on television was a Japanese car commercial that used the intro song of an H-game.
It's more or less business as usual for entertainment news. I'd say in the US but as far as I know it's pretty standard for most countries.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #109240 on: September 13, 2016, 11:43:14 am »

I was under the impression it did, but not in a usable way.
"Another particle somewhere is known to have an opposite state to this one's" doesn't actually count as information (it's no more information than knowing they were entangled, anyway).
You can, however, use it as the ultimate way of verifying normally sent encrypted information (entangle two particles, keep a running measurement of them, and then send your measurement with the information along with a time stamp. It becomes literally impossible to falsify once the distance between the two ends gets long enough due to speed of light limitations).
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« Reply #109241 on: September 13, 2016, 03:24:38 pm »

I was under the impression it did, but not in a usable way.
"Another particle somewhere is known to have an opposite state to this one's" doesn't actually count as information (it's no more information than knowing they were entangled, anyway).
You can, however, use it as the ultimate way of verifying normally sent encrypted information (entangle two particles, keep a running measurement of them, and then send your measurement with the information along with a time stamp. It becomes literally impossible to falsify once the distance between the two ends gets long enough due to speed of light limitations).
Entanglement is also more information-dense than normal information transfer methods - iirc (number of qubits) = sqrt(number of bits) in terms of information content.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #109242 on: September 13, 2016, 03:26:20 pm »

I vaguely recall you can send just one direction and get a bunch of information about particle states out of it. Though not faster than light, obvs.
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« Reply #109243 on: September 13, 2016, 04:07:10 pm »

I recall a piece of fiction where someone figured out how to detect whether or not a particle was entangled without checking both of them, and they used it as a (very expensive) emergency alert system by disentangling some of the bits in the transmitter in a pattern that could be interpreted by all of the recievers attached to it. It's clever, at the very least, but while I don't know enough to dispute it something still tells me it's impossible.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #109244 on: September 13, 2016, 04:08:34 pm »

I think that goes against the uncertainty principle. Or sounds like it does.
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