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Let Quantum Physics Officiate Your Wedding
disco_tracy writes "Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has come up with the ultimate in a nondenominational wedding ceremony: quantum entanglement. From the article: 'Keats has designed an entangling apparatus, which, when situated in a sunny window and exposed to the full spectrum of solar radiation, divides pairs of entangled photons and translates them to the bodies of a nearby couple.' As unusual as it seems, the ceremony is serious business to Keats, who says, 'The quantum marriage will literally be broken up by skepticism about it.'"
Even in quantum physics! :(
My version of the quantum entanglement wedding ceremony employs lasers with nice coherent, monochromatic light.
And sharks, of course,
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'The quantum marriage will literally be broken up by skepticism about it.'
Well, there go the divorce lawyers jobs.
Many marriages do exist, but when you look closer....don't.
A cute idea and all, and I hate to be the one to shoot big logical holes in a romantic concept, but 'The quantum marriage will literally be broken up by skepticism about it' seems more than a bit shaky to me. I suppose, technically, you might be carrying around a bunch of entangled particles for a while, and theoretically, you might at some point decide to isolate one of those particles (umm.. how, exactly?) and study it and in doing so collapse its waveform but... seriously?
Still, if I was getting married, I might consider something like this. Like I say, it's a cute, romantic notion derived from real science. Why not?
Why do we need all this fancy optical apparatus when good old-fashioned two-body superposition can easily be achieved at home, without additional hardware(unless desired, of course)?
So does this mean you can be married and single at the same time, so long as no one is observing you?
Combine this with weddings for animals. I want a pair of cats in sealed boxes to get wed. THEN we can have a serious scientific discussion.
Seems to me that divided pairs of entangled electrons are much easier absorbed by the bodies of the couple to be wed.
That, and the prospect of getting a nice shock, which should make people think a bit harder about whether they really want to get married...
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
subatomic particles become entangled, they behave as one
I'm not an expert on the world's other religions (denominations), but the phrasing of "two becoming one" regarding weddings seems to be a Christian notion to me.
Fixed: "The quantum marriage will non-literally be broken up within microseconds of its formation as the new partners exchange photons as a consequence of standing in the same room."
So you can be married and not married at the same time
how long until
Think of it! You can be married, and no married at the same time!!!
I thought you said, WET.
I'm... ummmm... I'm not telling the cats, just yet. But there's no doubt in my mind, they're alive in there.
It's supposed to be completely automatic, but actually you have to press this button.
I'm surprised that nobody has commented on the line about taking Science on Faith.....
Free Pie! The Pie is Also Evil!
It's just some scamming weirdo gabbling nonsense words and peddling invisible snake oil.
If he wants to do that, he should do it the proper way: put on a silly outfit, give himself a self aggrandizing title, and pretend to cast spells to compel a Beardy Invisible Sky Giant to approve of the union. That's the way it's done dammit.
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Great, now I have to choose single, married, it's complicated, or quantum entangled?
Regarding the line from the article: "gently entangling their flesh by the photoelectric effect" Part of this just sounds fishy to me - I might be wrong, but the emitted electrons won't be entangled... The only things that might be entangled are the photons, before they hit the bodies, right?
Uh, wouldn't the act of interacting with the photons that encounter the face destroy the entanglement?
DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
Quantum physics is spooky, not stupid.
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The cure for the Quantum Wedding is the Quantum Divorce:
http://struthersneil.blogspot.com/2009/08/quantum-divorce-and-end-to-this-darned.html
My thoughts exactly. Being absorbed by the skin is an observation effect as far as the universe is concerned and would collapse the wave function.
I just hope that you don't subscribe to the Many Worlds Interpretation, otherwise, immediately after your quantum wedding, you will be served with quantum divorce papers because:
1. In some possible universe you will have screwed the head bridesmaid on your wedding night
2. In some possible universe you will have won the lottery and become a multi-millionaire, and your soon-to-be-ex-partner wants half!
3. Your beloved really didn't appreciate you continually playing "My Beloved Monster" by Eels at the reception...
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
"If you're going to be That Way about it, I'll use stronger lasers, next time!"
Or perhaps...
"A cutting laser, Igor? I vow I'll make you pay for this, if it's the last thing I do!"
Yes, go ahead and use a laser for your ceremony. It'll make for a brief, but shining moment in the life of your bride, one she'll remember for the rest of her life.
'The quantum marriage will literally be broken up by skepticism about it.'
I just want to say that I doubt the legitimacy of all weddings performed by quantum entanglement.
What happens when I'm white and she's black?
"It's just some scamming weirdo gabbling nonsense words and peddling invisible snake oil."
Sounds like most religious ceremony to me.
At the end of the day a wedding is nothing more than a legal contract. All of the other stuff is just ceremony. I think this is a great way to do a ceremony that at least has some grounding in reality.