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The gentle wind ruffled some of your soft hair from your forehead. The book you'd been so engrossed in was resting on your stomach. The sunlight that filtered through the leaves created warm criss-cross patterns on your arms, that shifted every next moment.
Your breath was as even as the ticking of a watch, perfectly balanced as you snored away gently. The comfortableness of the afternoon had sneaked up on you and had covered you with a light blanket of peaceful sleep.
Cue the quiet-destroyer. Gilbert smirked as he hovered over your figure, his lips ghosting over yours. He pressed his lips fervently against yours, tracing yours with his tongue.
Still groggy from the doze, you blinked your eyes to see the Prussian kissing you. When he saw your (e/c) orbs glare at him he pulled back a bit, still pressing his frame close to yours.
"......Hey frau." Your eyes widened at his blasé greeting. "Get the hell off of me." You threatened, your expression dark.
He merely smirked and shook his head. "Nein."
"Bastard." You retaliated to which he shrugged. "Hey I never did tell you how much I loved you right?" He asked as if it was nothing special. You stared at him, which he took as a no.
He nuzzled his face against yours. "Good. Zhen let me take this opportunity to say, I totally vant you." You blushed and hit his chest. "How dare you say something like that!"
He sat back, laughing that infamous laugh of his. "Also frau, you need to keep your guard up a bit more." Crossing your arms, you raised your eyebrow. "I want to be the only one to be able to see you sleeping." He clarified as he held up his phone, to show you the new background picture he had.
It was your sleeping form. You flushed red and hit him on the head. "Gilbert! Erase that now!" He shook his head, grinning and holding his phone out of your reach. "Nope! You vere too adorable to not take a picture!"
When you pouted and looked at the ground, he came closer to you. "I really, really vant to be the only one to see your expressions. All of zhem. Zhey all belong to zhe awesome me now."
You glanced up in disbelief and growled at him. "I'm going to pound you!"
He smirked and cocked his head at you. "Zhe only thing I vant to pound into is your-" SMACK!!
You huffed as you stalked away from the bleeding Prussian's unconscious form.


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Ashley McCormack
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Ashley graduated from the University of Virginia with a Master's in Public Policy and a Bachelor's degree in psychology, with a minor in environmental science. Prior to joining EWG's California office, Ashley worked for the BlueGreen Alliance as a communications and program assistant. She loves hiking, photography, painting and trying every ice cream shop in the Bay Area.

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There is something so wonderfully pure and mysterious about St. Vincent and the Grenadines with its 32 islands, eclectic mix of people, secluded beaches, turquoise water, cerulean sky, tantalizing food, fresh fruits, eco-tourism and yes, its black sand. It's an oxymoron– unspoiled and uncluttered by tourists, yet boasting a world class resort on the main island.
Whether for a tropical vacation, regional holiday or if it's home, there's nothing more satisfying than the taste of the Vincentian saltwater air on your lips, the sun on your face, the black sand between your toes, and the cool inviting blue water surrounding your body .
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By DOTTY NIST
State government is on the minds of many residents in coastal Walton County, as evidenced by their participation when State Senator Don Gaetz (R-Niceville) recently brought his "Neighborhood Day" to Miramar Beach, Santa Rosa Beach and Point Washington. Gaetz's district encompasses the coastal portions of five Panhandle counties, extending from Escambia County to Bay County.
Elected to the Florida Senate in 2006, Gaetz regularly takes his office on the road to various areas within his district to meet with and listen to citizens and community leaders.
Part of the senator's mission, during his Oct. 30 Neighborhood Day in south Walton County, was honoring three schools with certificates in recognition of the "A" ratings they had earned from the Florida Department of Education.
These schools included Emerald Coast Middle School, Van R. Butler Elementary, and Bay Elementary School. Gaetz congratulated students, teachers, and school staff on their achievement and praised Walton County School Superintendent Carlene Anderson for her leadership in taking the county's school system from a "struggling" to a "high performance" status during her tenure.
Among Gaetz's activities for the day were individual meetings with citizens at the Walton County Chamber of Commerce Office in Santa Rosa Beach and at Point Washington United Methodist Church.
Brenda Rees of Eastern Lake, a local historian and author, took the opportunity to emphasize the importance of getting word out about the Panhandle's rich history, including that of Walton County.
"We're the oldest part of Florida," Gaetz agreed.
"We are the most historical and the most beautiful part of Florida," Rees asserted. She complained that the state marketing organization, Visit Florida, "doesn't do our area justice."
Rees advocated acquainting the international visitor market with the "real" attractions of Panhandle history and natural beauty. She made the case that doing so would draw these visitors and be a real plus for the local economy.
Rees was one of several residents who spoke for proper management and protection of south Walton County's unique coastal dune lakes.
Former Walton County Commissioner Van Ness Butler Jr., and wife Johnnie Mae thanked Gaetz for his work and success in getting the historic entrance and road through Eden Gardens State Park reopened to the public, and discussed other concerns in connection with the Point Washington community.
Emmett and Linda Hildreth's main concern was beachfront homeowners' inability to obtain state permits for seawalls constructed following Hurricane Dennis in 2005. The couple pointed out that it is not possible to sell or transfer many beachfront homes because these permits have not been obtained by homeowners. Gaetz agreed to meet with the Hildreths to discuss the matter in greater detail and seek a solution.
Gail Carmody of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told Gaetz that there has been positive progress with a plan to "thread" and possibly elevate a bypass road through Eglin Air Force Base, protecting a salamander species that had raised recent concerns. Carmody said that, contrary to reports, her agency had never taken a position regarding the road. She added that additional funding has now been identified for the project through a preliminary agreement with the Mid-Bay Bridge Authority.
Gaetz offered his assistance in facilitating a decision-making process for the proposed bypass.
Several of Gaetz's constituents congratulated him on his actions to prevent Citizens Property Insurance Corporation from going ahead with a new $100,000 corporate office, fitness club and concierge service in Tallahassee.
"It just outraged me," Gaetz commented.
He said he would have opposed the move at any time, but thought it was especially inappropriate in a year when "policy holders are trying to tighten their belts." Gaetz conveyed his objections to the insurance organization in a strong letter and promised to "make them famous" for this expenditure. Soon after those objections were raised, Citizens announced a withdrawal of the plans for the deluxe office complex.
South Walton County resident Dale Jewel questioned Gaetz about the new situation of property taxes going up when the market value of homes is going down.
Gaetz explained that the culprit for this increase is "the recapture rule," a provision of the 1995 Save Our Homes legislation that is just now coming into play with the current real estate slump. During the years when property values were climbing, Save Our Homes moderated property tax increases by limiting property value assessments on homesteaded property to a three-percent annual increase over each previous year's assessed value. Property taxes are calculated based on each annual reassessment.
The state revenue department, Gaetz continued, is interpreting a portion of Save Our Homes (the recapture rule) to mean that, on homesteaded property with an assessed value lower than just market value, annual reassessments must automatically increase by that same three percent, despite the current situation of falling market values on property, until assessed value equals market value.
Gaetz has stated his opposition to this interpretation of Save Our Homes by the revenue department. If property taxes are tied to property values, then "if values go down, taxes cannot go up," he told Jewel.
He added that he plans to propose a constitutional amendment to repeal the recapture rule.
Jewel also brought up the matter of a portion of a driver's automobile insurance bill going to, in effect, subsidize uninsured and underinsured motorists. He said he had noticed that one-third of his last payment would go toward this purpose.
"I've never seen it be that high," Gaetz commenting, noting that it is in fact illegal to drive without automobile insurance.
Jewel said he was aware that it would not be a popular idea to instate a requirement for underinsured motorists to increase their coverage, but he suggested taking a look at doing that to decrease the financial impact on drivers who maintain adequate coverage. Gaetz pledged to investigate such a requirement.
Kim Lonas of Walton County ARC, Inc., brought up the challenges her organization is facing in connection with transportation of developmentally disadvantaged clients to their workplaces. Lonas said a number of these people, for whom $600-to-800-per-months jobs are available, are stuck at home with no way to get to work.
"There is no public transportation in Walton County," Lonas complained, adding that she plans to investigate the feasibility of buses or other mass transit to address this problem.
Lonas said her nonprofit organization's budget has taken "a good hit" for the past two years and is expecting additional cuts.
Gaetz was optimistic that some state revenues to assist ARC could be freed up by the legislature's pursuing downsizing opportunities with regard to state government, including consolidating certain functions shared by more than one state agency and/or reducing or eliminating entire agencies. He stated his commitment to pursue these opportunities.
Richard Slusher, a ten-year resident of Santa Rosa Beach, shared his disatisfaction with "what's happening in our nation," including the absence of a fair (federal income) tax program and the lack of prayer in the public schools.
Gaetz was apprehensive that a Democratic White House victory would take both matters "in the other direction" from that advocated by Slusher.
Slusher expressed concern that Democratic control in Washington would "bankrupt us."
Gaetz said he had heard some argue that the demise of the Republican Party is at hand, but he was not in agreement, although he admitted that its becoming an "opposition party" is not unlikely. One result could be that the party would take stock and examine how far it has strayed from its core values, he added.
Gaetz was highly critical of the "spendthrift" ways of Republicans in the U.S. Congress. "Federal spending is 47-percent higher today than when Bill Clinton left office," he complained, "all that has happened under our watch.
"As Republicans, we need to find out again what it means to be a Republican," Gaetz commented in reference to the party at the national level, "we've lost our way."
BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was one of three schools in south Walton County to be presented with an "A" award certificate on Oct. 30 by State Senator Don Gaetz. From left: Bay Elementary School Principal Gail Pettus; Gaetz; Diana Kish and Melissa Pickering of the Bay Elementary School PTO; and Walton County School Superintendent Carlene Anderson.


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Spartan signs with N.C. State
Sun Valley High all-American wrestler Michael Macchiavello signed a partial scholarship to wrestle for North Carolina State on Wednesday morning.
Macchiavello is the third Union County wrestler to ink a scholarship this Spring.
"It feels really good," he said. "Hard work pays off. I'm just real excited for next year and I'm looking forward to it."
Macchiavello came up a soccer and football player and never thought until the last couple of years that wrestling would be his ticket to the next level.
"Honestly, I really didn't think that would ever happen," he said. "I thought I would've been going for a different sport like soccer or football but everything happens for a reason,."
Macchiavello was first talked into giving wrestling a shot in the eighth grade, and he didn't lose a match that year.
"My friend Keenan Whalen is the one that actually got me started in the sport of wrestling in the eighth grade," he said. "It was right after football practice. Coach Sean (Greiner) came to the practice to try to get people to wrestle because he had just started the middle school program. I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really interested, I'm not really into wearing the spandex or whatever'. That's what I called it when I was in eighth grade.
"Keenan convinced me to try it out and I told him I would do it if I wrestled in shorts and a T-shirt. I wrestled my first match in shorts and a T-shirt, not a singlet."
Macchiavello chose N.C. State over a partial offer from Appalachian State and a $20,000 financial aid grant from non-scholarship Bucknell.
Macchiavello is impressed with second-year N.C. State head coach Pat Popolizio and his staff.
"I like the coaching staff a lot," he said. "I think the new coaching staff they got this past year is really good. I think within the next couple of years the program is going to be where it needs to be. I'm just real excited for what they're bringing to the school. I think the potential for the program is really good for the next couple years."
The Wolfpack had a tough time in Popolizio's first season, going 0-5 in conference matches.
Popolizio, however, has built a program from the before. He turned Binghamton into a Top 25 program after the school went 0-12 in 2005-06.
Macchiavello, a two-time high school all-American, hopes to make an immediate impact for his new coach.
"My goal is to start; I think I have the potential but you never know what could happen," Macchiavello said. "I could get red-shirted, you never know. I'm just going to work hard and whatever happens, happens."


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Ride For Life, a police-escorted motorcycle ride, will take place Saturday, June 1. Registration starts at 9:30 a.m., and kickstands go up at 10:30am. The cost is $30 per rider, which includes lunch, a pin. The ride will start and end at Stubbs Harley-Davidson in Houston on Telephone Road. There will be food and entertainment. This event supports Anderson Network's annual patient and caregiver conference held in September. The ride is one of many events commemorating National Cancer Survivor's Day at MD Anderson during the week of June 2-8. National Cancer Survivor's Day is held annually on the first Sunday in June in hundreds of communities worldwide to celebrate survivors and their caregivers. A calendar of survivorship week events will be available on MD Anderson's Survivorship Web site during the month of May.
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Signs and Symptoms of Heroin Use
If you're concerned about a loved one who seems like he or she might be abusing heroin, the problem is that the drug user is seldom honest about the substances he or she is abusing.
Not sure what drug is being abused?
It may come down to being a detective and figuring out what drug this person is abusing by tracking down the signs of heroin use. If you're trying to help someone you suspect is using heroin, you have come to the right place to find the signs and symptoms.
Fast Symptoms of Heroin Use
Heroin is a fast-acting opiate. When it's injected, there is a surge of euphoria that arrives within seconds. Those using the drug other ways may not feel this surge as sharply.
The user will get a dry mouth and his or her skin will flush. The user's pupils will be constricted. He will feel heavy and dopy and may fade in and out of wakefulness. Heroin users may nod off suddenly. Breathing will be slowed, which is how an overdose kills.
When awake, the person's thinking will be unclear. They will tend to lose some of their memory. Their decision-making and self-control are likely to deteriorate.
Some of the less "pleasant" signs of heroin use are the itching, nausea and vomiting that may accompany heroin use. Another sign of heroin use is the constipation often suffered by opiate abusers. The regular user of this drug may look for laxatives. They may experience skin or other kinds of infections and a lowered immunity to illness.
The user's pain will be suppressed, which is not surprising because opiates are used for pain relief. On the tragic side, however, is the fact that the signs of heroin use can include spontaneous abortion.
Remnants of Heroin Use That You Might Find
Heroin is usually smoked, snorted or injected. So depending on the method of administration, you could find remnants of the drugs or the paraphernalia of drug use left behind. Heroin itself may be a powdery or crumbly substance, ranging all the way from off-white to dark brown. Black tar heroin is nearly black and is sticky instead of powdery.
You might find syringes or small glass or metal pipes. A person dissolving the drug and injecting it might also leave dirty spoons and lighters around. A person injecting also needs some device to cause the veins to enlarge, so there may be belts or rubber tubing found in the area where he or she is using the heroin.
Addiction to Heroin is a Trap that May Require Help to Escape
One of the many sad things about heroin addiction is that the addict is seldom aware of the damage being done to his or her life. They will often begin to neglect their own needs, the acquisition of the day's dose of heroin being far more important. They may not eat properly and may look haggard if heroin abuse is prolonged or heavy.
Some heroin addicts may ask for help but the majority fear the pain and sickness of withdrawal. It is very often up to the family members to rescue the heroin-addicted person and get him or her into withdrawal. It may only be by knowing the signs of heroin use that you can detect the addiction and begin to make arrangements for rehabilitation. An addict may try to conceal symptoms of heroin use, by wearing long-sleeved clothing to cover needle marks. The family must refuse to accept the lies and simply help the person arrive at rehab.
If this is the situation you find yourself in with a loved one, contact Narconon for assistance. The Narconon drug rehabilitation program has a 70 percent success rate, one of the best in the field, and can help the addicted person come back to life and productiveness again. You can have that person back again.
One of the Narconon drug rehab program steps that helps bring the drug user back to an enjoyable life is the Narconon New Life Detoxification Program, a healthy detox activity that utilizes a sauna, moderate exercise and a precise regimen of nutritional supplements. The result is a fresh, bright viewpoint and clearer thinking. Contact Narconon at 1-800-775-8750 to learn more about our program.
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Posted by Bernard Dworkin on 05/25/2014
So it's less than a month since my last review and I just picked up a large pie from this restaurant, after having called 15 minutes before. When I got there and told them I was picking up, they gasped. They did not even put a pie in the oven. I waited another 15 minutes. The pie was well over $18, but note it's supposed to be $16.95. "Tax" they said. No one charges tax for pizza and that custom is so prevalent that it is misleading not to let people know ahead of time -- at least on the menu. I told them I would not be back and I will not be. By the way, the pie was pretty good this time (see my prior review).
Posted by Bernard Dworkin on 04/30/2014
Problem is that quality of food changes from day to day, so what happened to me tonight may not be applicable tomorrow. But the sign of a good restaurant is to be consistently good (Daniello's is not). In fact, there is no reliably decent pizza in midtown east, Ultimate having left the planet. Tonight, Daniello's pizza was too doughy, and the sauce was bland. The voice on the phone when I called to order was new, so maybe there is a change in ownership. Ther's a new place about to open on 57th just east of First Ave. and let's hope it turns out to be better than "Best pizza on First", which is Worst Pizza on First. Rents are humungous in this area so businesses have to depend on volume to survive. Unfortunately, as volume increases, quality decreases (known as "Bernie's LAw").
Posted by Anonymous on 05/17/2013
Ordered several large pizzas and 2 salads for office party. They charged $100 for two aluminum containers of salad! So annoyed by this we won't order again.
Posted by yuk on 01/30/2013
I ordered a pizza. The guy delivered it cold, on its side edge. Seriously...Take your average pizza box sitting flat on a table, turn it at a 90 degree angle so it is now perpendicular to the table, stick it in your delivery bag, deliver it as if that is acceptable, and still take the tip. I have ordered from here before but never again. Do not give your money to these people....There are much better restaurants in the neighborhood.
Posted by Wake me for meals on 07/26/2012
Restaurant Impossible needs to come in and teach the cook how to cook. Food was b l a n d and worse, yet- c o l d
Posted by dmo on 06/23/2011
The pizzas and pastas are quite tasty. In fact, this is my favorite pizza in the neighborhood (and I've had them all). The red sauces actually have chunks of fresh tomato. Everyone who works there is very kind and accommodating and the place is always very clean. That said, the food is definitely overpriced. The issue with Daniello's is that they're a pizza and red sauce joint trying to be something more upscale. In addition to the unjustified prices, there are only two tiny tables for those who just want to grab a slice while the rest of the tables have linen tablecloths and are reserved for sit-down service (and yet they mostly go unoccupied). And if you are at the tiny tables, a waiter hovers over you, which makes one think that they're expecting a tip. Kind of silly when you're just having a slice and a soda, and you ordered the food and brought it to the table yourself. Bottom line: instead of putting the focus on linen tablecloths and specialty drink menus, they should focus on being a more casual and inviting neighborhood spot.
Posted by Bernard Dworkin on 02/01/2011
I was the only sit-down customer tonight at 6 pm. It could have been the bad weather, but I think it is the slippage in quality of food and the in-your-face service by the waitress. I barely had my jacket off, when she pounced on me with menus and within seconds, she asked if I were ready to order. Several time she cam over to see if I had finished my drink, or salad or main plate. It was impossible to relax. Also, she speaks and understands English as if she were taking a hard shower. Now for the food. The prices have risen and the quality of food is poorer. In particular, they had a fine, fresh quality tomato sauce which has been replaced with pizza-type sauce. Then Caesar salad had tasteless, wilted romaine and canned or bottled sauce sauce. Another local place hits the dust.


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Cruise into the New School Year
Because it's Time to Shake Off the Summer…
These collection spotlights and websites can help ease your back-to-school transition, and offer year-round educational support:
Picture Books to Soothe Anxious Students
Because some kids need a little encouragement to go back to school.
Picture Books For New Friendships
For little one filled with anxiety about making new friends this school year.
Helping Kids Cope With Bullying
Because kids aren't born knowing how to handle bullies – or a friend who turns into a bully.
Websites for Parents
- Family Education covers kindergarten kickoff, reading readiness, moving up to middle school, homework help, lunch ideas, and more.
- The National Association of School Psychologists(NASP) offers concise advise about re-establishing routines before school starts, overcoming anxiety, and what to do if problems arise.
- The U.S. Department of Education has a nice guide to helping assure your child's academic success as well as tips for working with schools and teachers.


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State funding for schools would drop nearly 4 percent under a measure a House committee approved today.
The move comes as House Democrats and Republicans seek to address the state's finances during a session where they've already approved cutting $1.6 billion in health care for the poor.
The key cuts to elementary and high schools amount to about $259.6 million for the upcoming school year, a 3.85 percent drop to an overall level of nearly $6.5 billion for public education.
Rep. Will Davis, chairman of the education appropriations panel, said he was disappointed lawmakers couldn't find more money to maintain the current year's spending level.


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Chinese physicists measure speed of Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance': At least 10,000 times faster than light
- By Sebastian Anthony on March 7, 2013 at 6:31 am
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A team of Chinese physicists have clocked the speed of spooky action at a distance — the seemingly instantaneous interaction between entangled quantum particles — at more than four orders of magnitude faster than light. Their equipment and methodology doesn't allow for an exact speed, but four orders of magnitude puts the figure at around 3 trillion meters per second.
Spooky action at a distance was a term coined by Einstein to describe how entangled quantum particles seem to interact with each other instantaneously, over any distance, breaking the speed of light and thus relativity. As of our current understanding of quantum mechanics, though, it is impossible to send data using quantum entanglement, preserving the theory of relativity. A lot of work is being done in this area, though, and some physicists believe that faster-than-light communication might be possible with some clever manipulation of entangled particles.
Now, thanks to these Chinese physicists — the same ones who broke the quantum teleportation distance record last year — we know that spooky action at a distance has a lower bound of four orders of magnitude faster than light, or around 3 trillion meters per second. We say "at least," because the physicists do not rule out that spooky action is actually instantaneous — but their testing equipment and methodology simply doesn't allow them to get any more accurate.
To get this figure, the physicists entangled pairs of photons at a base station, and then transmitted half of each pair to two receiving sites. The receiving sites were 15.3 kilometers (9.5mi) apart, and aligned east-west so as to minimize the interference from the Earth's rotation (which is significant, when measuring speed on this scale). One half of the pair was then observed, and the time for the other half to assume the same state is measured. This process was repeated continuously for 12 hours to generate enough data to accurately divine the speed of spooky action.
According to the physicists, other research groups have tried to measure the speed of spooky action before, but they've all had locality loopholes — flaws in the methodology that undermine the quantum nonlocality that the experiment requires. This time, the physicists claim, all the loopholes have been closed, and that their measurement of at least 3 trillion meters per second is accurate.
Where do we go from here? Good question. In recent months we've seen a group of international scientists teleport entangled photons over 143km (89mi), the first ever teleportation between macroscopic objects, and the first fiber optic network that can carry conventional data and quantum data. We're now at the point where a quantum internet — either using conventional fiber or satellites — is starting to become feasible. If it turns out that we actually can communicate data via quantum entanglement, we now know that it'll be much faster than the speed of light.
At the very least, this is one of the first observations of the subluminal (superluminal? transluminal?!) universe — a significant event for all scientists everywhere.
Research paper: arXiv:1303.0614 – "Bounding the speed of `spooky action at a distance'"
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This is all FLAWED. One cannot use any measurement devices that are LIMITED by the speed of light to measure anything FASTER than speed of light!. ie Event is OVER before it can be observed!.
John Potocny
Thank you for showing me my new favorite website of the week haha!
I agree, this is awesome. The fallacy fallacy is my favorite, since I feel most of the internet dismisses claims by throwing out some fallacy, rather than addressing the claim itself. Kind of ironic.
http://www.facebook.com/ZimProgrammerExtraordinaire Matthew Ryan Stalhood
Love this. Also if I understood the article correctly they had two stations and merely recorded arrival and departure times, i.e. if one particle left the station A and arrived at station B at the same recorded time or nano seconds later, that time over distance would give you a speed greater than light. I'm not a scientist but that's what I got from it with an OPEN mind.
Yeah, you don't understand the article.
Aupa Laudio
You have one only pair of particles, but the two particles works as just one, so if yo "touch" one of the two-pair of particle the other "feels" it no metter where they are.
Kwesi Jackson
makes sense.
Kind of like trying to see how fast a cheetah runs by running along it as it out runs you in short time
You seem to have not understood the experiment… given the use of very accurate clocks, the two stations could have communicated their results by carrier-pigeon, and still measure the lower bound of the speed of propagation of the decoherence of the system of two entangled particles.
Leah H
You are astute. That would be Tachyon as per Tesla.
This is cutting edge stuff! Quantum entanglement is extremely strange and counter-intuitive!
If the speed proves to be instant it could eventually be useful for interstellar communications.
Wouldn't have to be interstellar for the difference to be noticeable. Just communicating with the rovers on Mars has a delay of a few hours.
It actually takes between 4 and 20 minutes, depending on our relative positions. I think you're thinking of Voyager, which does take hours.
Fascinating to think that Voyager has been travelling decades at thousands of MPH, yet is only a few light-hours away.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=508255503 Joseph Alexander
And thus, Godspeed was established. :)
John Potocny
This is pretty awesome stuff. I would really like to know definitively whether it is instantaneous or just really really fast now though, I always assumed it was instant up until just now…
On a side note, any particular reason why this article is under Computing for ExtremeTech?
I had also assumed it was instant. I suppose it won't ever be possible to prove that it's instant – even if we measured it over a much greater distance, we'll only increase the minimum speed again.
http://www.mrseb.co.uk/ Sebastian Anthony
Because of the possible repercussions for quantum networks/computing. It's tenuous, but still :)
http://twitter.com/inkovic Peter Macinkovic
Logistically speaking, the immediate benefits would be in computation, telecommunications etc
Let's put it this way; Any and all missiles could have their navigation decrypted, in flight, rerouted in almost an instant of computation speed. Impossible with our current technology.
Decrypting a missile's nav en route wouldn't help you much, since most ICBMs are programmed with a set trajectory (out of several pre-programmed courses selected at launch time). For MIRVs, the "bus" might do some targeting mid-course, but I doubt that's taking any signal from the ground. Some countries (allegedly) equip at least some missiles with "call back" capability, so being able to do that would be a benefit (obviously). But if I was designing that system, it would involve using a single, unique call-back key, so there wouldn't be anything to decrypt.
Now, for cruise missiles or other guided missiles that rely on GPS, it should be possible to break the scheme by which GPS signals are encrypted, and then overpower the broadcast with forged GPS signals that would cause the missile to go off course. Probably simpler just to shoot it down, though.
Tesla was saying this 120 years ago. We don't need anyone to prove anything. Even Wheatstone measured the speed of electricity at 288,000 miles per second.
Let's simply drop the lies of relativity and move on, or back rather to REAL science.
The lies of relativity? Prove it wrong then!
Many things prove it right – such as clocks in GPS satellites having to be adjusted to stay in time, as time is affected by gravity.
"Argumentum ad predictum"
Many things prove Miasma theory right.
People not getting sick when they wear masks for instance and many things more.
And your point is?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Skip-Nordenholz/100003613616195 Skip Nordenholz
"Many things prove Miasma theory right", it is perfectly valid to treat the earth as you frame of reference, when you drive in you car, your speed is in reference to the earth. Miasma theory is correct in what it could predict, it was wrong in that there is something special about the earth as a frame of reference. Physics theories are not absolute truths about how the universe is constructed, they are models used to make predictions about the universe, old theories are rejected because newer theories are simpler or more complete, even then older theories can still be useful, General relativity replaced Newtons gravity but Newtons gravity is still used to send spaceships to other planets. Newtons gravity is simpler to use and the errors are of too small to worry about. Physics theories that make useful predictions are never proven wrong just incomplete or not general enough. We already know that General relativity is incomplete, its contradicts quantum physics, that doesn't mean its wrong, it make correct prediction therefore it is proven correct, it just doesn't cover all domain of the universe.
Tesla… LOL
This article is ridiculous. Yes, they measured a minimal "speed" at which quantum correlations must exchange information, if there is a limit or an exchange at all. But it is no more than that: it is a correlation. One person gets a measurement, a second person gets another measurement. For both parties, the measurement seems random. It is only AFTER they compare notes (which necessarily means exchanging information slower than or at the speed of light) that they notice the perfect correlation between their results.
There is absolutely no way to transfer information faster than the speed of light, as it would violate causality. There is no mechanism in all of quantum mechanics which allows for information to be transfered faster than light. What does happen is that some correlations must be absolutely obeyed, no matter how far away measurements happen. But this does not mean that information can be transmitted. The only thing which you can do is measure. If you measure, you get a random result, and that result will stay at each subsequent measurement. But it is not possible to discern between "measured already" and "not measured yet". In both cases, you will get a random result which will repeat upon subsequent measurements.
Please don't talk about personal incredulity Mark. You yourself are guilty of "If I can imagine it, it could happen".
"Imagination is everything, it is the preview of lifes coming attractions" – Albert Einstein.
Very well put. This is why there is still no solution to faster than light communication, because you can not know the correlation between measurements before they are actually compared using light speed communication or slower.
Misunderstandings like this is propagated by the messed up way of interpreting the state vector as some kind of physical entity, the way non-locality works in quantum mechanics.
As stated in the paper "The transactional interpretation of QM" by John G. Cramer:
"The nonlocal character of the connectedness is a subtle one, which permits the instantaneous enforment of correlations across spacelike separations but not permit signaling."
I imagine a photon detection center The "up" and "down" relationship will be transferred to binary information at a rudimentary bit rate similar to vacuum tube computer technology.
http://twitter.com/GReggzz732 Greg Bernstein
Well you didn't have to seem so angry and heated about it. It made you sound kinda like a dick.
His thong DID get a little twisty, didn't it ?
http://www.facebook.com/christophe.galland1 Christophe Galland
What you say is true given our CURRENT understanding of quantum mechanics. How the correlations develop in the first place still undoubtedly require non-local features (what Bell has shown). I would not be so dogmatic as saying that non-locality will forever remain mysterious and beyond our control… BTW, I recommend Tim Maudlin book "Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity" on the topic.
What he says is not true at all. Nonlocality and the results of experimentations point to him being completely wrong.
Where would we be today if everybody thought like you?
Somewhere Deepak Chopra isn't succesful.
Where would we be today if everybody thought like you?
Not believing in relativity myself and in fact knowing which easy to understand theory is by far superior, I have gathered my own collection of fallacies, including naming hundreds myself and can now sit back, relax and simply say:
"Argumentum ad technologicum".
Theory X
Without Theory X invention I would not have been invented today
OR Without Theory X technology T would not have been possible today
therefore X is true
OR (more commonly used)
not X is false
To give two examples of two equally fallacious statements:
Thanks to the Ptolemaic system we have astronavigation.
Thanks to Miasma theory we have sanitation.
Are you against sailboats and sanitation?
Oh, you must think that you're smarter then Ptolemy and thousands of the best and brightest minds that have ever lived if you don't believe Ptolemy's model.
Oh, you must like sitting in your own filth if you don't believe in Miasma theory.
And to beat others to their next fallacies:
Cranks have been saying for centuries that the world is round. They have all been disproven. Read Archimedes on what he had to say about Aristarchus of Samos. So say something new.
Read this book called Tetrabiblos and then come back to me if you don't understand something.
This would be a suitable epitaph to ignorance when it finally subcomes to reason.
That is if you don't want logic to ever come to season.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Skip-Nordenholz/100003613616195 Skip Nordenholz
'Argumentum ad technologicum' isn't a logical fallacy, GPS would not work if general relativity was wrong, this is a fact, it may be a theory replaces it in the future because the new theory is more general. General relativity replaces Newtons theory of gravity because it is more general, but Newtons theory of gravity isn't wrong, they still use it to send space ships to other planets, it just less general or incomplete. Physicist today are trying to find a theory to replace General relativity and quantum physics, because the two are incompatible with each other, the new theory could out right replace both or it could be a modified version of either, but the old theories will not suddenly become wrong, they will just not be as general. Miasma theory is not wrong it is incomplete, Ptolemaic system is also not wrong, we still use earth today as a centre of reference for finding the constellation in the sky, you can pick any arbitrary reference frame in the universe and come up with physical laws for that reference frame which are correct, though they may not be the simplest.
"'Argumentum ad technologicum' isn't a logical fallacy. GPS would not work if general relativity was wrong. This is a fact."
Just like the fact that ships not falling off the earth would not work if Flat Earth theory was wrong? And that's a fact too?
"Perhaps it might be a theory that will replaced in the future, because the new theory is more general."
What do you mean by more general?
A theory of everything?
"General relativity replaced Newtons theory of gravity because it is more general, but Newtons theory of gravity isn't wrong"
General relativity replaced Newtons theory because General relativity is an extension of Einstein's special relativity, which fell in favor against Aether theory to explain the behavior of light.
Since Einstein's special relativity's formulas were tested and didn't fail, unlike competing theories of that time, it is now accepted as the leading theory for explaining time, space, the motion of bodies and the propagation of light.
"but Newtons theory of gravity isn't wrong, they still use it to send
space ships to other planets, it just less general or incomplete."
Newton's formulas are approximate. Close, but no cigar and thus wrong.
And the both explanation are wrong on what is and why there is gravity.
"Physicist today are trying to find a theory to replace General relativity and quantum physics, because the two are incompatible with each other, the new theory could
out right replace both or it could be a modified version of either, but
the old theories will not suddenly become wrong, they will just not be
as general."
They're incompatible with each other as they both are wrong for similar reasons.
"Miasma theory is not wrong it is incomplete"
Incomplete means that there is something missing (in the theory), not that it contains inconsistencies, but the formulas give you a nice estimation or true values under circumstances.
An incomplete theory would be the classic atomic theory, the theory has changed over the years, we have subatomic particles in the theory now, but the notion that one cannot divide an object indefinitely still holds.
Miasma theory however is not just missing bacteria and viruses in the smelly air.
Miasma theory is wrong because:
A) You can have smelly air and never get sick
B) You can have not a hint of bad smell in the air and still get sick.
C) Not all diseases are airborne.
D) Curing people is done by exterminating the bacteria/viruses, not by getting rid of the stench in your local landfill or sewage system.
and as an added bonus
E) You can prevent contamination and death of a patient by keeping your hands clean after treating your previous patient.
"Ptolemaic system is also not wrong, we still use earth today as a center
of reference for finding the constellation in the sky, you can pick any
arbitrary reference frame in the universe and come up with physical
laws for that reference frame which are correct, though they may not be
the simplest."
The Ptolemaic system is wrong because stars and planets do not orbit the earth.
" …the fact that ships not falling off the earth would not work if Flat Earth theory was wrong? <=== this is a false statement, and invalidates your argument if you're basing your argument on this bit of pseudo-logic. As it turns out, ships not falling off the Earth works perfectly fine whether the "flat earth" hypotheses (it was never a theory, actually) were right OR wrong.
GPS signals, along with a number of other pieces of modern equipment, would fail if the predictions made by relativity were wrong within our ability to measure them. The fact that the GPS constellation does work does not prove general relativity to be true, but it requires that whatever theory is true account for the same time-dilation that relativity accounts for; the fact that the predictions are equal to the observed results within the margin of our ability to resolve time and velocity is evidence supporting general relativity.
"'…the fact that ships not falling off the earth would not work if Flat Earth theory was wrong?' <=== this is a false statement, and invalidates your argument if you're basing your argument on this bit of pseudo-logic"
Folatt was reaching for sarcasm to make a point, and you missed it.
"As it turns out, ships not falling off the Earth works perfectly fine whether the 'flat earth' hypotheses (it was never a theory, actually) were right OR wrong."
As I suspected. You really Folatt's missed his point. You did.
"GPS would not work if general relativity was wrong"
You should add the words "in that context". Like this:
"GPS would not work if general relativity was wrong [in that context], this is a fact, it may be a theory replaces it in the future because the new theory is more general."
To not qualify the extent of the wrongness will make you come across as being absolutist. Folatt knows and you know General Relativity could be replaced, but the thing that you two disagree on is what "wrong" should mean. You both do have good points; Folatt is simply stricter in how a phrase such as "not wrong" should be applied. He is not "wrong" [any more than you are].
Personally, I do dislike the notion that the Ptolemaic system is "not wrong". My reason for disliking it is that the Ptolemaic system is inadequate as model which will advance science. Also, if I reject something on matters of fact, I cannot imagine how I would agree that it is "not wrong".
"'Argumentum ad technologicum' isn't a logical fallacy"
You're right. Denying the antecedent is a logical fallacy. Here is an example of an implicit denial of the antecedent:
"And techzombie, if you don't believe relativity, please stop using your GPS. It wouldn't work without relativity."
P = Relativity is true
Q = GPS works
A prime example of a stupid person trying hard to appear as a clever person. But instead exposing themselves as a stupid person to all the clever people.
Have fun trying to prove centuries of science wrong.
Don't you mean decades?
I already had my fun with the Flat Earth Society last week.
Well believe it or not, science has been going on for more than a few decades.
Isaac Newton:
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Einsteins work was built on other work before him.
"Well believe it or not, science has been going on for more than a few decades."
With statements like that, no wonder people think you are clever!
A prime example of a stupid person trying hard to appear as a clever person. But instead exposing themselves as a stupid person to all the clever people.
Have fun trying to prove centuries of science wrong.
http://www.facebook.com/Conflict.Opp Conner Davidson
As a person with little knowledge on quantum tunneling and it's principles, could you explain what you mean when you said that it's impossible to distinguish what is "measured already" to what is "not measured yet", in regards to why tunneling isn't possible? I'm very confused.
http://www.facebook.com/daniel.duprie Daniel Ruben du Prie
To me, there's another way of looking at it. Perhaps the information is somehow encoded in the entanglement in a way that is perhaps fundamentally beyond our capacity to observe in any meaningful way, ie in any way that could ever be represented and encoded and symbolised. Say we have two entangled particles so if particle A reads state "X" then particle B must read state "Y". Before the particles are read they are in a superposition of states which means they are both in states X and Y simultaneously; and entangled with each other. I think whatever this means essentially transcends our understanding of reality, it's still essentially meaningless according to our categories of phenomenology to say that an "object" is in multiple states at once, even though it is actually the case at the quantum level and totally works. Just because it functions perfectly here doesn't mean it makes any sense to us super-monkeys. So we send particle B let's say 10 light years away to Joe to do our spooky action at a distance experiment. The point is it's going to take 10 years for the entangled particle, with its superpositioned (meaningless to us, but maybe not "to" the particle in question) "information" or "encoding" to reach its destination. The entangled particle itself cannot travel faster than light. That's one way of not violating "c" Now we look at particle A and lo, it is in state X so apparently instantaneously particle B, 10 light years away, collapses into state Y, and when Joe looks at it "at the same time" we do, it is indeed in state Y. However, to confirm that to us (and nothing is certain until confirmed) we're going to have to wait another 10 light years for Joe's cosmic SMS "Particle is state Y" to get back to us. So until Joe's confirmation SMS which does not violate "c" reaches us to confirm his reading, technically Joe and his particle are still in superposition. Either way it seems to me "c" is and never will be violated.
http://www.facebook.com/Conflict.Opp Conner Davidson
This doesn't make any sense. Cat's don't have opposable thumbs – Mittens can't detonate doomsday devices. Clearly, this technology doesn't bode well for prospective cat owners. If I were a cat, quite frankly I would be down right terrified. I'm going to entangle my way out of this illogical anti-feline rhetoric.
That's exactly what entanglement is and does. Very good.
Ryan Scheel
What if you sent two entangled particles at the same time? One to kill the cat, and the other to relay the message back? You read the message back sometime after you send your message, but before 10 years have passed.
In that case, wouldn't you have violated the speed of light?
I love it when articles on quantum mechanics come up and I am half way through reading–get outraged–go to post to find someone has already voiced my rage. Thank you.
http://profiles.google.com/enigmav8 Chris Kleczynski
Anyone who "rages" over a quantum physics article needs to put down their eBay-purchased Star Trek phaser and bag of Cheetos and go have a REAL life.
http://twitter.com/RussellUresti Russell Uresti
I'm fairly certain dual particle systems and quantum entanglement have been observed phenomena for years now. We already know that changing the quantum state of one particle in the system causes an instantaneous change in the other particle in the system. The change happens so quickly that it happens before light leaving particle A could reach particle B. Most believed the change was without any delay at all – this group simply claims to have measured the actual speed of the change. You can't say there is no way that it happens faster than the speed of light because this is already an accepted fact. We have observed it, we just haven't explained it.
Personally, I still believe the interaction is instant and without delay – I believe the equipment used here was just wasn't calibrated correctly and the reading they got that actually shows there was a delay is wrong.
Note that they only give a lower bound for the interaction. The research doesn't show that it's not instantaneous.
You're a moron. Don't try and understand this "sciency" stuff, as its clearly not your thing.
http://www.facebook.com/osiris.fox Osiris Fox
While you are right that they simply measured the state and confirmed that the other particle was in the same state (like a mirror), if that "state" could somehow be manipulated (which we obviously can't do right now) then information could indeed be transferred if the theory that they will always reflect each others state is true.
Also why do people say "breaking" relativity. Relativity is based on observations and technology was designed around those observations. There is nothing to "break", theories are only superseded by better theories.
Do not forget that the earth was factually considered the centre of the universe at one point.
"Do not forget that the earth was factually considered the centre of the universe at one point."
Very true and relevant example, one to which I would add that not only was the Earth considered the center of the Universe and Solar System, it was so for more than ONE THOUSAND YEARS and countless people were torturously MURDERED for not accepting it as fact, even armed with observations and proof it was false.
There are several theories that could today be considered scientific dogma that I hope people 1k years from now don't look back to our time and say "They believed in Global Warming and Evolution? HOW? Were people that stupid a thousand years ago?"
Just that has happened many times before…just ask Copernicus, Galileo, or Ptolemy.
There have been opposite examples as well, such as Alfred Wegner. He proposed his theory of Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics in the late 60's and was almost committed as an insane raving crackpot, until paleomagnetic data proved him correct and he finally got credit for one of the most important discoveries in human history.
Good science comes from seeking the truth, not trying to fit the truth to want you want or believe.
That's the point. If you try to manipulate it, you break the entanglement. It's not a gateway, it's a consequence. If you put a red and a blue pen in two boxes, then move them far apart. If you open one box, you will instantly know what the other contains. But putting a different-colored pen in the box won't magically change the color of the other.
It's not a very good analogy, but it's correct enough in explaining what you can and cannot do.
And I urge you to read Isaac Asimov's "Relativity of Wrong"
http://www.facebook.com/osiris.fox Osiris Fox
Thank you for the info… I am wiser now. Entanglement sudden death, or ESD, indicates it is highly improbable that states can be manipulated and reflect accordingly. Thus this leads me to believe that when the particles are entangled their mirror states are set at that time, like spinning two balls in the same direction, remain in that state regardless of how far apart they are from each other, but if one is manipulated… ESD results. That's in very basic terms of course that my puny brain understands it.
Kwesi Jackson
I believe that's a very good anolog
http://www.facebook.com/awoodburn Aaron Woodburn
Oh get over yourself dude; a correlation exists and we don't know why – Einstein didn't know why, and neither do you. Don't pretend to have an absolute understanding of what is possible when the entire premise of scientific knowledge is based on the fact that it is incomplete.
I agree. But the agreement begins and ends with the fact that we are measuring the speed of the transfer of information with the medium of the transfer itself. Show me the mathematics of relativity without referencing the speed of the transfer of the information, i.e. the speed of light.
In other words, if we perform a thought experiment and presume that electromagnetism does not exist and the only available transfer of information is in the form of sound waves then it can be easily determined mathematically that sound is the ultimate speed in the universe. Why? Because all available information comes to us at the speed of sound. Hence sound is the ultimate speed. This is an obvious circular argument.
Relativity is self-referential, relying upon the knowledge of a system using 'c' as the medium of information transfer. All methods of information transfer rely upon the medium of transfer. And every medium of transfer has its own version of relativity, claiming that information cannot be transferred faster than the medium in which it is being transferred. Which is obviously correct. But to presume that there is no faster method of communication than light simply relies upon an assumption that ALL information is brought to us in the form of electromagnetism. Therefore, by the valid mathematics of Relativity, nothing can travel faster than light.
But it doesn't mean that there does not exist other, not yet detected, forms of information transfer that could be 10,000 times faster than light.
We have ears to hear at v, eyes to see at c, but faster than that we need technology.
http://www.facebook.com/lyle.wammer Lyle Wammer
Ego is low vibration energy.
http://www.facebook.com/robert.randall.16 Robert Randall
"And yet it moves …." as Galileo said, when being forced to recant his observation that the Earth moves around the Sun ….
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mick-Price/100000748385088 Mick Price
Quantum tunneling transmits waves/particle faster than light, and said particles/waves can transmit information. This is well known. You can send Motzart faster than the speed of light, That's a signal, i.e. information because let's face it, it's certainly not noise.
Jeff Carver
In all seriousness, I would really like to know how a simple lever does not provide the ability to transmit information immediately. If I have a very, very long lever, tell you its moving up means one thing and down another, then put you on the other end of it. Wouldn't you know instantaneously which way I moved it?
No, because forces in a solid are only transmitted at the speed of sound in the material. Thus such a communication device would be many times slower than shining a beam of light. Not to mention that such a lever would simply break.
From Ars Technica:
"Repeated experiments have verified that this works even when the measurements are performed more quickly than light could travel between the sites of measurement: there's no slower-than-light influence that can pass
between the entangled particles. However, one possible explanation
for entanglement would allow for a faster-than-light exchange from
one particle to the other. Odd as it might seem, this still doesn't
violate relativity, since the only thing exchanged is the internal
quantum state—no external information is passed
Quantum entanglement cannot involve the passage of information—even hidden,
internal information, inaccessible to experiment—at any velocity,
without also allowing for other types of interactions that violate relativity.
Experiments have definitively demonstrated entanglement, and ruled out any kind
of slower-than-light communication between two separated objects. The
standard explanation for this behavior involves what's called
nonlocality: the idea that the two objects are actually still a
single quantum system, even though they may be far apart. That idea
is uncomfortable to many people (including most famously Albert
Einstein), but it preserves the principle of relativity, which states
in part that no information can travel faster than light.
To get around nonlocality, several ideas have been proposed over the
decades. Many of these fall into the category of hidden variables,
wherein quantum systems have physical properties (beyond the standard
quantities like position, momentum, and spin) that are not directly
accessible to experiment. In entangled systems, the hidden variables
could be responsible for transferring state information from one
particle to the other, producing measurements that appear
coordinated. Since these hidden variables are not accessible to
experimenters, they can't be used for communication. Relativity is
Hidden variable theories involving slower-than-light transfer of state
information are already ruled out by the experiments that exclude
more ordinary communication. Some modern variations combine hidden
variables with full nonlocality, allowing for instantaneous transfer
of internal state information.
But could non-instantaneous, faster-than-light hidden variables theories
still work?
Of course, one conceivable conclusion would be that faster-than-light
communication is possible; this result provided a possible avenue for
testing that possibility. By restricting the bounds on the speed of
interaction between entangled systems, future experiments could show
whether any actual information is traveling or not."
sound like you think you know everything, yet you are basing your
arguments on human instrumentation and theories of a science that is
basically a few hundred years old in a Universe more then 15 billion
years old. And you have the arrogance to think that we can be sure
about how the universe works at it's most fundamental components? Are
you so arrogant, or just so close minded.
You conveniently forget to mention that GR and Quantum Theory do not align, there is no description that allows them to exist in harmony according to our
Standard model.
You also conveniently forget to mention that
their are in fact things that travel faster then the speed of light.
For example, the leading edge of the expansion of the universe itself
expands faster then the speed of light.
You also say that information is being transferred in Quantum Entanglement. Do you not realise information might not be transferred at all? That it is relying
on an underlying mechanism of nonlocality.
"And techzombie, if you don't believe relativity, please stop using your GPS. It wouldn't work without relativity."
B if A = TRUE
B iff A = FALSE
What is B, and what is A?
Some people have postulated that human intelligence may be linked to quantum effects.
In other words, more than just chemistry and electricity may be required to produce "intelligence".
Yes, "some people". You don't need quantum effects to explain intelligenge though. Emergence in a complex non-linear system is sufficient, even if that system is classical.
"Emergence in a complex non-linear system is sufficient"
Do you know of any such system?
Blair Nilsson
Yes, neural nets, Bayesian filters, hell, even 1r is sometimes enough. Learning systems do a pretty good job, and we are only touching the surface.
Learning systems do a pretty good job…
Learning systems do a pathetic job of creating intelligence and self awareness.
http://www.facebook.com/erik.vosburgh Erik Vosburgh
There is no real reason to assume that consciousness is the product of quantum activity besides the fact that both phenomenon are mysterious and complex. When you open up the hood of a car, you attribute the car's ability to move to its components, rather than quantum mechanics, and the average auto mechanic (who has knowledge of car components and no knowledge of quantum mechanics) is proof that this assumption is correct.
Likewise in the brain, we can stop getting smaller at the neuron. It is the basic functioning unit of the brain, and while quantum mechanics are at play everywhere, it seems that consciousnesses is only produced by robust neural networks ( does a stomach or a pancreas produce consciousness?). Neuroscience research even shows that conscious experience can be altered by the stimulation of groups of neurons via implanted electrodes, no quantum effects needed.
#Occams razor
http://www.facebook.com/daniel.duprie Daniel Ruben du Prie
Notwithstanding I think it's fair to think about how consciousness and reality at the quantum level interact at some fundamental and radical level, or even how consciousness "creates" (or collapses infinite possibles into a single) reality. It's impossible for example to state that the universe including us exists at all for someone who once lived and is now dead and no longer conscious. from a materialist, atheist viewpoint, It seems death destroys not just the person dying, but mysteriously (I think) the whole universe is destroyed (or maybe transformed from a single observed reality into infinite, but unreal, possible outcomes, like a wave function) for the one who has died.
There is no real reason to assume that consciousness is the product of quantum activity …
There is no real reason to assume that consciousness is *not* the product of quantum activity … until someone proves otherwise … which has not been done.
… conscious experience can be altered by the stimulation of groups of neurons via implanted electrodes,
Yes, and altering existing consciousness is not the same as creating consciousness.
http://twitter.com/sinterbear Bruce
The brain does not produce consciousness, consciousness produces the brain, as well as the rest of the body, not to mention the rest of the cosmos. Consciousness does not emerge from anything, everything emerges from consciousness.
I know, that's a lot to take in one go, but when you're facing a problem try looking at it from this perspective. After all, this idea has been around since at least 5000 BCE. There might be something to it.
http://www.facebook.com/osiris.fox Osiris Fox
Just for interest…. photosynthesis uses quantum mechanics to extract as much energy from light as possible by using the effect on photons. Is it possible that a similar effect exists in neurons? Thus increasing the processing power of a single neuron. Any way. Just a random more sci fi than science thought.
"You don't need quantum effects to explain intelligence though."
You haven't explained intelligence.
http://twitter.com/MarkSaysThings Mark Habke
The world is going to be a very different place in the next 30 years.
That's pretty cool.
but not because of this kind of psuedo-science
Benjamin Eugene NElson
So tell us, why is this psuedo-science?
Is it because you're Racist and the Chinese came up with it or are you just a cynical bastard in general?
Tommy S
Why would you assume this is racism? It's not uncommon for references to quantum physics be considered a "pseudo-science". I, for one, am intrigued by the article, but I can see where skepticism would come in.
http://gehennax.myopenid.com/ Svenny
Only retarded rednecks in the US refer to it as pseudo-science.
Benjamin Eugene NElson
Because it outright dismisses the article without even trying to explain why maybe? And there are "America fuck yah!" types who wouldn't believe anything worth doing is done outside the US?
Yeah… "Utah" is in his username so I'm inclined to agree with you XD It's kinda sad how the people like that guy think they have it all figured out, while smarter people have doubts and realize that we (humanity) knows nothing
As a physicist living in Utah, and who grew up in Utah, I should be offended but I had the same reaction after seeing Utah in his user name.
http://twitter.com/wbeaty Bill Beaty
QM considered pseudoscience? Bell Inequality DOESN'T EXIST, we must sneer at stupid contemporary physicists! Thinking they're smarter than Einstein. Quantum Entanglement: it can't go faster than c, and those who think differently need some proper skeptic ad hominem dropped on their heads.
Seriously, you think people just made up this stuff out of the blue? Scientists didn't even want to believe it at first but all of the evidence supports QM, it is the most supported theory we've ever come up with as of yet. Almost all of the technology we use has some basis in Quantum Mechanics, and do some damn research on quantum computers. You won't be able to argue against it when we're all using those. I bet people said the exact same thing about Einstein at first "Bah, who the hell does this guy think he is? Claiming to be smarter than Newton… That's stupid pseudo-science"
You did detect Bill Beaty's sarcasm, right? No? Oh well. Nevermind then.
http://twitter.com/NFlightTech Garth Häävelschlockë
You are the racist because the first thing that popped into your little head was "IT'S BECAUSE THEY ARE CHINESE!!1!"…
YOU are the one making a distinction, moron.
Benjamin Eugene NElson
Yes, because your childish name calling totally will change my mind.
Internet tough guys, gotta love them.
http://www.facebook.com/lyle.wammer Lyle Wammer
Easy to spot a liberal ideologue. First thing that comes to mind is a person's race. I thought we were over that a long time ago.
What, you think race just isn't an issue anymore? Where the hell have you been? I mean not that that guy was justified in pulling the race card, that was just stupid. But race is definitely not something a lot of people are over yet, unfortunately.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mick-Price/100000748385088 Mick Price
Nobody is saying race isn't an issue, but assuming that someone is saying something because of racial prejudice with no evidence is quite frankly stupid. You are the one not over race.
I never said he was right to jump to race, I specifically said "not that that guy was justified in pulling the race card". I love and try to respect people of all creeds, colors, religions, nationalities, origins, sexualities, etc. As long as they aren't hateful and judgmental. You obviously didn't hear about the CPAC coverage where people were saying we need to bring back segregation and slavery was a good idea, and then the black guy who tried to tell them how to get more minority votes who got screamed at and then kicked out for stating his opinion. Race does not matter to me whatsoever, the only reason I'm mentioning it at all is because it is part of this conversation.
Uhm, Lyle Wammer specifically said "I thought we were over that a long time ago." Did you not even read my comment, or his? Seriously, guy, come on
Brian Jones
I wouldn't recommend feeding the trolls…
Benjamin Eugene NElson
Two years, no reply. Color me unsurprised.
Said the chimp with his 2nd grade science "education". Total moron in life.
Benjamin Eugene NElson
quote from one of his prevous statements.
"Ridiculous, how can any study of marine animals go back 11,000 years when the earth (the entire universe in fact) is only 6,000 years old?!"
http://www.facebook.com/DonaldSpann Donald Spann
Well that explains it all right there. He's not racist, he's just religious and retarded.
Sean Eldridge
Awe hush up…what I hear is a bunch of nay sayers. There are no limits to velocity. There is an infinite frame rate by which the universe cycles through universal configurations, therefore you can travel at any velocity and still maintain frame by frame continuity. See my "God Theorem" for details. I may make it available if you contact me through Facebook.com. The name's Sean M. Eldridge…Someone please tell me which way is up…lol! :P
John Foust
10,000 times 'c'? That's warp factor 9.9, the speed limit in Star Trek.
http://twitter.com/ctyankeestxvi CT Yankee
actually it's warp 21.5 = the cubed root of 10000
Actually warp 10 is the limit where infinite energy is required to travel that fast… Like our limit is c, the speed of light. After warp 10, it's transwarp.
Johann Dirry
you are both right, because there are two different warp scales: the warp scale from the original series, and the next generation warp scale.
http://www.facebook.com/thewizardwhodidit Matt Wilson
I like Star Trek too, but I could feel my virginity growing back just reading this.
Dude I had no ideathe Chinese were so cool!
Joel Detrow
^Malware link, don't click.
http://www.facebook.com/cliff.halasz Cliff Halasz
You said "Subluminal" when you mean to say "Superluminal" Whoops!
also, you can't transfer classical information using quantum information; you just can't. Maaaaaaybe we'll find a way some day, but it would be such a huge scientific breakthrough, it would completely shatter the standard model of physics as we know it.
Stop talking about quantum internet like that's a thing. Its not.
http://www.mrseb.co.uk/ Sebastian Anthony
Yeah, I realised after I'd written it that 'subluminal' could be misinterpreted. I actually meant it as 'under', rather than 'slower'. I think I'll leave it as it is!
Allen Eastlund
I agree with Op. Even if you take 'sub' to mean 'under', you're still talking about phenomenon 'under' the speed of light; we do this every day. This is the first measurement of a phenomenon 'faster' or 'greater' than the speed of light, ie. 'super' or 'above' the speed of light.
http://www.mrseb.co.uk/ Sebastian Anthony
Maybe I'll change it to uberluminal…
I'm confident and sure FTL comms are possible, although implausible as of now. Who knows, maybe time dilation at c will end up as another ultraviolet catastrophe.
My only complain, I'll wait for a more reliable information source, other than Chinese.
http://www.facebook.com/jason.bruce.5264 Jason Bruce
So that is how they can communicate over vast distances in Star Trek.
http://www.vetthepress.wordpress.com/ VetthePress
"Faster than light" is a loaded descriptor. In fact, I believe that the causality is due to circumnavigation of time-space, not some "FTL travel" that must communicate over long distances. That is impossible in that form. To call his "FTL" is misleading and in a sense, irresponsible reporting… sensationalistic.
Very true. If you look at it from the computational universe theory from Wolfram it makes complete sense how spooky action works without traversing any space or time! Between him and Howard Bloom, I've found my new science overlords :P
http://twitter.com/edwadokun Edward Kwong
Can't wait to spool up my FTL drive and check out distance planets! (Probably not in my lifetime)
Christopher Parsons
well at least we all now know what the new name for "super fast broadband" will be, though i see that only taking 6 months for the phone companies to sell it lol, would be awesome if they managed to get it working though, think of university's and tech centres all around the world being able to have a full video interaction for course and work, that and I could finally play WoW with my friend in Australia
http://www.facebook.com/paulo.mmiranda.7 Paulo M Miranda
http://www.facebook.com/curtis.w.franks Curtis W. Fraŋks
In the last paragraph, it should read "superluminal", yes?
Also, their measurement is precise, not necessarily accurate.
http://obbop.wordpress.com/ obbop
Those experiments will assuredly lead to an unintentional unraveling of the bonds binding the structure of the universe leading to a collapse that leads to the end of the universe allowing life to exist.
So… We can transmit data throught quantum entanglement? And QE is faster than the speed of light…What does that say about general relativity?
http://www.facebook.com/max.lewis.7777 Max Lewis
Sounds kinda spooky if you ask me
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jens-Lindberg/652292493 Jens Lindberg
Can anyone explain to me, why is not possible to send information using entanglement? I feel like there's someting very fundamental that I've missed or do not understand.
Will the measurment itself screw up things?
Felix He
I remember at least ten years ago i read a book said some Chinese scientists have discovered there can be some existent faster than speed of light..Now there come it again… I ma a Chinese too and i don't believe this .
carol argo
there is no mather move.only interaction.imagine the old can with corde phone game when you were young.it is the same thing but the wire are physicly unseen.you will need a can at the other end for entanglement to work .it is still faster then speed of light communication tho
so in theory you could get the lottery result before they are announced!(wait wait!in theory lol)also the limit isn't known in reality yet ,they do state their instrumentation limit their capability to estimate the real speed .they have a mathematic theory tho about the real speed !
carol argo
I love this tho cause it mean we might have a way in the future to have real time data from a probe we would send in a black hole!
Transluminal. Not subluminal.
http://www.facebook.com/awoodburn Aaron Woodburn
You know, everyone who's commenting on this article, loyalty to a theory does not a scientist make.
Everyone saying that you can't communicate through entanglement – you've been very clever coming up with classic examples as to why you can't, but entanglement does not have a classical analog – even the best parallel that can be drawn is fundamentally flawed. If you can't understand that, don't pretend to understand entanglement. If you don't think that we can create some sort of communication given a correlation like entanglement then you don't know many engineers. Leave the applications to the application people.
http://www.facebook.com/DonaldSpann Donald Spann
I'd just like to say, as a non-scientist…I feel like a complete f*cking retard after reading these comments.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000780350864 Richard Wilson
hopefully this wont be brushed under the carpet like last time, chinese will want to make space their own
Jos Zomerplaag
I believe it is called subspace.
Jos Zomerplaag
I believe it is called subspace
isn't it already really fast? you know what, let's send all you fucking pixies back to the pony express and THEN record who is complaining about message speed. If it's that GODDAMN important, say it to there fucking face, I don't give a clit if they're in Bogota and you're in OKC.
We all know time travel is not possible without acquiring 1.21 gigawatts and you can only get that through a bolt of lightning and have it run through the flux capacitor which hasn't even been invented yet!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Goldes/1340068516 Mark Goldes
Will Pion fusion power a spacecraft to many million times lightspeed?
Scroll down toward the end of CHEAP GREEN at http://www.aesopinstitute.org and see the bit about the work of the late Dr. Robert Carroll. A mathematical physicist who rejected Special Relativity, he did extensive work – suggesting it is worth testing his ideas.
http://www.facebook.com/robert.randall.16 Robert Randall
I believe it IS instantaneously because the entangled particles are actually IN the same place along another dimension of the universe which we simply cannot see or experience. This is not la la land stuff — a lot of serious physicists are looking for experimental ways to test or prove the existence of these unseen dimensions … which may also be the basis for the dark energy and dark matter that appear to represent 96% of the 'stuff' making up our universe ….
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mick-Price/100000748385088 Mick Price
" As of our current understanding of quantum mechanics, though, it is impossible to send data using quantum entanglement, preserving the theory of relativity. "
Nope, that's not "our current understanding of quantum mechanics" although it may be yours. Gunter Nimtz has sent a symphony by Motzart 4.7 times faster than light.
http://twitter.com/Pepbio Manu Costa
See Sagnac Experiment, Airy's Failure, Michelson-Gale's experiment and the famous Michelson-Morley experiment in youtube.
http://bit.ly/QIrPsg Richard Blankenship
Tetryonics101 dot com That's the future people…
small clothier
quantum entanglement is the basis of teleport, add to it the recent developments at
university of vienna: laser molecular cutting
university of tel aviv: holographic recombination
now look at the possiblity of translation (knot of language) of the future position of the earth etc., the idea of holding a stationary point while the universe moves around it.
http://www.facebook.com/david.byrden David Byrden
It's nonsense to talk about these measurements being "simultaneous". That's true only in our reference frame, which is not special. You can choose other frames such that EITHER of the measurements happens before the other one.
(But in all frames, the apparent communication is superluminal; in fact if your speed along the axis of the experiment is V, then the communication seems to occur at a speed of c-squared / V )
I'm saying "apparent" communication because I don't think any communication occurs. I think there exists one "bit" of information which is measured once, and measured again, and hey presto! It's the same bit! What did you expect?
What you expect is to find that the entanglement is indeed "infinitely fast". It would be a great surprise if it turned out to define a new "universal" velocity scale or a new space or time scale on which the effect breaks down. THAT would be an extremely important result because it would mean that there is a whole new layer of physics underneath of what we call quantum mechanics. So if they could have set an upper limit on the "speed" of entanglement, there would be a physics Nobel in the works. Of course, they couldn't, so it's really a null experiment.
Are people forgetting the validity of non-locality and that concepts of simple space and time as unchanging containers for events to occur in are flawed abstract models? Why must there be information transfer over distance when the particles act as if they are locally entangled? The particles don't seem to be communicating with each other; they are entangled and act as if the intervening distance did not exist.
Most people simply can't understand that the world is not classical and never was. Only the thermodynamic expectation values of the world are classical. Since our senses can not sense anything else than these expectation values, we are screwed to be blind for reality, forever.
http://www.korioi.net/ Korios
The question is if it's possible to encode information in one group of particles and decode that information in their distant entangled group. Information transfer may not occur technically, but the end result is the same if you can use particle entanglement for the above purpose. It might not be possible to encode or decode any information without breaking the entanglement, due to the nature of quantum mechanics.
James Hosking
Due to reasons other than racism, chinese scientific results should be taken with a grain of salt, unless replicated elsewhere.
Tom Sawyer
"…If it turns out that we actually can communicate data via quantum entanglement, we now know that it'll be much faster than the speed of light."
Reminds me of the tachyonic antitelephone paradox postulated by ol' Albert Einstein. Could you imagine receiving messages before they were sent? All I'd need is someone with the winning lotto numbers on the other side!
The press should stop calling it "action". An action in physics is a time integral over the Lagrangian of the system. Since the Lagrangian has the unit of energy, the action has the unit of energy*time. Variation of this action integral around its minimum (or saddle point), produces the trajectory of the classical system.
In quantum mechanics, path integration of the action using a complex exponential kernel produces the probability distribution of the quantum mechanical evolution of the system.
In all cases of isolated systems, like the ones that produce EPR effects, the action is a constant. It is the very fact that nothing about the system changes during the evolution between initial and final state that leaves the EPR correlations intact.
well, i think here is how the quantum internet will work. the computer sends a request to download a file, to download, the server sends the computer 8 or 16 or so photons that are entangled with the same amount of photons at the server. once the receiver has them all, the server swipes its photons into different states matching the data of the file and received by the home computer as the state of its collection of photons changes.
Behold, this internet will give you download speeds limited by your own hardware, or the number of requests at the server of course.
God please make it happen in my lifetime, I want to see hoe it feels like to download 100s of gigs in a sec :D
http://wealthofnotions.blogspot.com/ Adam_Smith
If I apply the Many Worlds interpretation to quantum entanglement then what seems to happen is that when an observer like Bob measures a quantum state such as spin and sees, say, spin UP then he puts himself in the same universe as a particular distant observer like Alice who when she observes the other part of the entangled pair sees spin DOWN. There is also a different Bob-Alice pair which see DOWN and UP respectively instead of UP and DOWN but we don't see them because they are in an alternate world. There is no actual transmission of information between Bob and Alice. They have correlated spin measurements not because one measurement somehow had an effect at greater than light speed on the other but only because the alternative worlds nature permits includes only those in which these correlations occur.
In classical physics a conserved quantity like energy or angular momentum may be distributed and shifted around the parts of a system any number of ways but the total conserved quantity remains constant. In the quantum realm some quantities like spin do not have definite values until observed so the actual distribution of values in a distributed system are not fixed until then. Quantum entanglement is nature's way of enforcing certain conservation rules regardless of how distantly separated the parts of a system may be when an observation is made.
http://wealthofnotions.blogspot.com/ Adam_Smith
If I apply the Many Worlds interpretation to quantum entanglement then what seems to happen is that when an observer like Bob measures a quantum state such as spin and sees, say, spin UP then he puts himself in the same universe as a particular distant observer like Alice who when she observes the other part of the entangled pair sees spin DOWN. There is also a different Bob-Alice pair which see DOWN and UP respectively instead of UP and DOWN but we don't see them because they are in an alternate world. There is no actual transmission of information between Bob and Alice. They have correlated spin measurements not because one measurement somehow had an effect at greater than light speed on the other but only because the alternative worlds nature permits includes only those in which these correlations occur.
In classical physics a conserved quantity like energy or angular momentum may be distributed and shifted around the parts of a system any number of ways but the total conserved quantity remains constant. In the quantum realm some quantities like spin do not have definite values until observed so the actual distribution of values in a distributed system are not fixed until then. Quantum entanglement is nature's way of enforcing certain conservation rules regardless of how distantly separated the parts of a system may be when an observation is made.
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It's completely possible to measure something faster than the speed of light. All you need are multiple data points. It's data folks, not physical this or physical that… just information. There is no rule that says their sensors have to collect data in series, or even at set intervals.
For instance, imagine some crazy aliens appear.. and their ships zip around at FTL speeds. Their speed could be measured by using multiple sensors that only gather information from given points at given intervals. Nothing limits sensor B from snooping a trillionth of a second after sensor A. They're not the same object, they don't occupy the same space, etc.
Together, the data these two units gather represents a single data set, whose info can be used to deduce ship speed. The problem people have is that they don't realize a single data set is comprised of 2, or 32, or 32 thousand sensors.
As for the story, I don't know if I should like it or not. QA is too damn complex for me to understand, so it's spooky at any distance!
Gil G
Faster-than-light Internet connectivity? What a future!
alvaro fernandez
Does entanglement ever occur naturally?
I wonder this because if I understand inflationary theory right, space time expanded at a supraluminal speed early on. If any of the particles in this pre-inflationary universe could have become entangled through some natural process while still close to each other. wouldn't some of them have remained entangled even once inflation whisked their entangled buddies further out in own space (or even in another light cone?)
If so, is it possible that some fraction of the e.g. photons we observe coming from distant places are already entangled with other photons many light years distant?
Relativity is not my specialty, so apologies to any real physicists in the audience.


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Boo-Boo Number Three
Last night I was catching up on the latest From Draenor with Love comic when I ended up walking away with something unexpected. So after a round of pet battling, I logged onto my mage and headed over to Scarlet Halls. Ah, Scarlet Halls, we do have a bit of a history don't we… especially on my first two trips there.
For those who don't know, there's a book in Flameweaver Koegler's room which teaches you the Teleport: Dalaran spell (as long as he doesn't set fire to the shelves). Now you may be thinking that's old news but there's a twist. It teleports you to the OLD Dalaran location in Hillsbrad.
When Coolidge logged in last night I said I wanted to show him something. So I told him to fly to my location in the Vale and to not focus on where I was sending him. Little did I know that I hit the Teleport: Dalaran spell instantly teleporting me to the Dalaran crater – only I was in mid air and falling. Having seen the comic I expected this but I was a bit shocked that it was my personal port and not the group one. As someone who hasn't used her slow fall or played her mage for such a long time, I had forgotten where I put the spell so I fell to my death.
So in an attempt to be quick but remain casual about things, I told Coolidge to just wait there, I'd be back in a jiffy so I spoke to the Spirit and rezzed my body. Meanwhile, I looked up WoWHead to see where I could get the Portal: Dalaran spell. For those interested, you can buy the tome from Endora Moorehead in Dalaran's Magical supply shop for a cheap price.
Once I had learnt the spell, I ported myself back to the Vale and tried again. As before, I told Coolidge not to look at the location but to just go through. I went through first, hitting my slow fall button and expected to see Cool's body fall to earth in a bubble. There was nothing. So I looked up and saw he was still on his Jade panther mount… sigh.
This time the only casualty was Jorny…
This also reminds me of a LFR incident in DS. I summoned my Stonard portal at the top of Wyrmrest Temple. The placement and timing were perfect as I caught out a number of people. :P


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