Saturday, 20 March 2010

Quantum entanglement on the Macro scale

Fascinating piece on Entangled States about macro-level quantum entanglement.  The ability to force one entangled entity to "choose" which state it's in by measuring its entangled quantum partner.

Generally I have no trouble with telling people what to do.  But we have serious problems sometimes trying to get Beaker People to make up their minds when we have no preference ourselves, which is why there are so many voting doors in the Moot House.

But now I have the answer.  We've borrowed old Mr Schrodinger's cat from down Mill Lane and when Beaker People are dithering we get the cat entangled in their Arran sweaters.  Then we measure the cat, and the Beaker person concerned has to make up his or her mind.

Stop me if this is overly technical.

But we are actually suffering from the after effects of these quantum entanglements.  Once entangled on the quantum level, it becomes very hard to separate the cat's behaviour from that of the Beaker Folk.  Last night, for example, we had to retrieve Wierdgulf from a tree.  Yellbert became stuck in a drainpipe while chasing a vole.  And Lavender has taken to playing with a ball of wool in the library.

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