Is Life an Illusion Just Like the Song Says?
TomTheFighter writes:
The DailyBeast is not a site I'd normally go ( tend to be a little more on the Conservative side if you will ) but an interesting story is an interesting story, how could I not share it?
Why More Physicists Are Starting to Think Space and Time Are 'Illusions':
A concept called "quantum entanglement" suggests the fabric of the universe is more interconnected than we think.
And it also suggests we have the wrong idea about reality.This past December, the physics Nobel Prize was awarded for the experimental confirmation of a quantum phenomenon known for more than 80 years: entanglement. As envisioned by Albert Einstein and his collaborators in 1935, quantum objects can be mysteriously correlated even if they are separated by large distances. But as weird as the phenomenon appears, why is such an old idea still worth the most prestigious prize in physics?
Coincidentally, just a few weeks before the new Nobel laureates were honored in Stockholm, a different team of distinguished scientists from Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Fermilab and Google reported that they had run a process on Google's quantum computer that could be interpreted as a wormhole. Wormholes are tunnels through the universe that can work like a shortcut through space and time and are loved by science fiction fans, and although the tunnel realized in this recent experiment exists only in a 2-dimensional toy universe, it could constitute a breakthrough for future research at the forefront of physics.
But why is entanglement related to space and time?"
There is some really deep stuff there, really quite something.
The propeller on my beenie cap doesn't spin fast enough to elaborate in a more intelligent fashion, I recommend just reading it for yourself.
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