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Quantum Theory Experiment Said to Prove "Spooky" Interactions (economist.com)
universe520 writes: Albert Einstein was troubled by how two particles can communicate with each other even if they are on opposite sides of the galaxy. Today researchers in the Netherlands have closed the final two loopholes in how quantum entanglement works. The Times reports: "The new experiment, conducted by a group led by Ronald Hanson, a physicist at the Dutch university’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, and joined by scientists from Spain and England, is the strongest evidence yet to support the most fundamental claims of the theory of quantum mechanics about the existence of an odd world formed by a fabric of subatomic particles, where matter does not take form until it is observed and time runs backward as well as forward."
Quantum Mechanics is a Great Tease.
At first it looks like you can do wonderful things, like send messages faster than light or travel back in time. BUT when you look at the details or actually try it, there's always a catch that limits the usefulness.
Me thinks Quantum Mechanics was designed by Oracle lawyers: it looks like you got a great big powerful database...until you go to use it and find out the contract does something ridiculous like count "transaction" as each table cell read, NOT per query, filling your license quota the first week*.
Reminds me of a joke:
Q: "What's the difference between Larry Ellison and God?"
A: "God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison."
Maybe he does.
* Hypothetical example only based on patterns of more complex actual examples. Don't sue my tail off.
Table-ized A.I.
No. They aren't "arguing against" the Universe having a creator. They simply have no evidence FOR one, so they dismiss the idea.
If you have scientific evidence, then please present it. If not, then it's not science and science has nothing to say about it.