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