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Beginner's Guide to Quantum Entanglement

Posted by Zonk on from the in-case-you-need-to-make-your-own-universe dept.

No Fortune writes "Einstein called it 'Spooky action at a distance.' This article describes, in scientific layman's terms, how spooky action is created." From the article: "Normally the photons exit the crystal such that one is aligned in a horizontally (H) polarized light cone, the other aligned vertically (V). By adjusting the experiment, the horizontal and vertical light cones can be made to overlap. Even though the polarization of the individual photons is unknown, the nature of quantum mechanics demands they differ."

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  1. sigh, digg by alatesystems · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I saw this on Digg about 2 days ago. Even the title is a direct ripoff. I see so many ripoffs from Digg on /. every single day (except a few days later).

    I read Slashdot about once every 2 days now, instead of my normal all throughout the day that I used to. My surfing time is now devoted to digg and Engadget(and other Weblogs Inc Blogs). You get better quality news with less dupes, better quality writeups, often humor, and just a better web experience in general.

    But I do like the CSS on /. now. It makes it easier to do Greasemonkey scripts, and I'm running a couple of Slashdot user scripts now.

    I hate to troll, but this is more of an open letter to /. editors. Just look at the Alexa numbers. There's a disturbance in the force. Here's a link to my digg news.

  2. Re:Finally! by dangitman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you watch it on fast-forward, you can learn it in only 12 hours!

    --
    ... and then they built the supercollider.