re: 3 physicists share Nobel Prize for work on quantum entanglements

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Think of it as the long-distance relationships of the particle physics world

Quantum entanglement explains how two subatomic particles can be linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of space. Despite their vast separation, a change induced in one particle will affect the other.

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And in case anybody asks, this doesn't mean that instantaneous messages can be sent across the cosmos because you can't know how the particle will be changed until it happens. It's all just probabilities.

To share the info about how the particle changed, you'd have to send a message at the speed of light using radio waves or a laser, which would take a billion years if the particles were a billion light years apart. So no instantaneous or faster than light communication is possible.

The American John Clauser did his work at Berkeley (of course ), and is still based in the Bay Area. Which means if we can get him to come to our game against Washington in a couple of weeks, we can pull out the "Nobel Prize! Nobel Prize!" chant like we did for George Smoot at the 2006 Oregon game.


https://vault.si.com/vault/2006/10/23/college-football

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Having rebounded from a season-opening blowout, QB Nate Longshore and Cal are pointing toward a showdown with USC

EVEN AT prestigious universities, "Nobel Prize! Nobel Prize!" isn't usually the chant of choice among rowdy football fans. But that was the congratulatory serenade that Cal physics professor George Smoot heard from the home student section at halftime of the Golden Bears' 45-24 victory over Oregon on Oct. 7. Four days earlier Smoot had won the Nobel Prize for physics for his research advancing the big bang theory of the universe's origins, a big bang far different from the one that shook the Bears' universe seven weeks ago: a 35-18 season-opening loss at Tennessee that blew their national reputation to bits.

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So no instantaneous or faster than light communication is possible.

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Just fart in church and see how that works out.

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Explain this to me like I'm 45 and don't know what quantum entanglements are.

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Looks like Midichlorians might be real

I had to break up with a girlfriend due to a quantum entanglement.

Sheldon, raj and Leonard?

I would guess that particles a little closer would be studied.

I'm not sure how it all relates to more practical uses like quantum computing which companies like Google, Rigetti, and Northrop Grumman are working on. The subject of quantum is quite interesting as it kind of turns traditional physics on it's head. Quantum tunneling, etc will start to blow your mind, then there is quantum optics and the like.

Do they answer the question of how the particles are entangled in the first place? And are particles unique to each other or can they become entangled with any like particle? And how do we know they are paired? It could be just another random particle with opposite spin that they are saying is entangled with the particle initially observed.

Ok...it's a little dated...but still, the US kicks arse when it comes to Physicists.