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Quantum Physics Just Got Less Complicated

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-is-still-pretty-complicated dept.

wabrandsma sends this news from Phys.org: Here's a nice surprise: quantum physics is less complicated than we thought. An international team of researchers has proved that two peculiar features of the quantum world previously considered distinct are different manifestations of the same thing. The result is published 19 December in Nature Communications. Patrick Coles, Jedrzej Kaniewski, and Stephanie Wehner made the breakthrough while at the Center for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore. They found that wave-particle duality is simply the quantum uncertainty principle in disguise, reducing two mysteries to one.

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  1. Re:Isn't that obvious? by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 5, Funny

    "wave-particle duality is simply the quantum uncertainty principle" gets a "no shit" straight away from me, though I guess a rigorous proof of it is kind of news.

    Shhh. Don't make waves. :-)

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  2. Re:Lame by TheRealHocusLocus · · Score: 5, Funny

    TFS is so stupid there's no way I'm going to RTFA.

    Comments like this are like urine stains on the wall next to public urinals. They appear so often and so consistently you'd think there was a contest, where the first one to miss, wins.

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  3. Less Complicated by Translation+Error · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course! This clears up everything! Now I understand quantum physics completely!

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    1. Re:Less Complicated by Immerman · · Score: 4, Funny

      I bet you didn't even read the math.

      On the other hand, if this discovery can be used to further simplify the just simplified results we can use it recursively until all of quantum physics is reduced to a three-second advertising jingle that anyone can understand.

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    2. Re:Less Complicated by Dragonslicer · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...until all of quantum physics is reduced to a three-second advertising jingle that anyone can understand.

      I've collapsed, and I can't get up!

  4. Re:Isn't that obvious? by tibit · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stephanie is fat or homeley

    Dear Coward, you fail at google.

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  5. That would violate the second law of thermody by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Funny

    If something gets simpler, the entropy of the universe decreases. It can't happen. It is the law, everything should get more and more complicated as time goes by. Why, the next generation will have easier time to pass Quantum Mechanics I PH304 MWF 10:00-11:30 than I did? Would not stand for it.

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  6. Re:Isn't that obvious? by rwa2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure I see what you did there...

    Oh, now I do. Not sure where you're going with this, though..

  7. Re:Isn't that obvious? by fightinfilipino · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have a good point...

    it's actually a set of points, but the correct point can't be observed without changing it's velocity.