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Let Quantum Physics Officiate Your Wedding

Posted by samzenpus on from the physics-of-love dept.

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.'"

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  1. A different way by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2

    My version of the quantum entanglement wedding ceremony employs lasers with nice coherent, monochromatic light.

    And sharks, of course,

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    1. Re:A different way by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2

      You didn't miss much.

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  2. one method to prove that... by muckracer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Many marriages do exist, but when you look closer....don't.

  3. Re:Skepticism? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pop-quantum physics is, alas, absolutely fucking rife with nonsense derived from the interpretation that the "observer" in ye olde Schrödinger's cat thought experiment means "conscious, in the way I imagine myself to be, observer" rather than "virtually any outside interaction that disrupts the closed system". From that fount much bullshit flows...

  4. Eh... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    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)?

    1. Re:Eh... by metacell · · Score: 3, Funny

      It can even be entangled, have rotation and spin.

  5. Schrödinger's Wife by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So does this mean you can be married and single at the same time, so long as no one is observing you?

    1. Re:Schrödinger's Wife by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

      The problem is that girlfriends abhor an un-collapsed wave function.

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    2. Re:Schrödinger's Wife by metacell · · Score: 4, Funny

      It means you can be entangled with many different partners at the same time, as long as no one is observing you...

  6. Combine this by WizardMarnok · · Score: 2

    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.

    1. Re:Combine this by VortexCortex · · Score: 2

      Schrödinger's cat does not exist in two states until the opening of the box. The cat entered the box in one state, and will exit it in only one state. The equations must be manipulated as if the cat were in multiple states in order to contain either outcome in a single expression, but in fact the cat will be in only one state: An undead zombie cat, both living and not.

  7. Re:Oops by DudeTheMath · · Score: 2

    'Til doubt do us part?

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  8. Re:Skepticism? by radtea · · Score: 2

    Pop-quantum physics is, alas, absolutely fucking rife with nonsense

    The word that comes to mind is "incoherent"...

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  9. Quantum Physics by geekoid · · Score: 2

    DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.

    Quantum physics is spooky, not stupid.

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