Human Eye Could Detect Spooky Action At a Distance 255
KentuckyFC writes "The human eye is a good photon detector--it's sensitive enough to spot photons in handfuls. So what if you swapped a standard photon detector with a human eye in the ongoing experiments to measure spooky-action-at-a-distance? (That's the ability of entangled photons to influence each other, no matter how far apart they might be.) A team of physicists in Switzerland have worked out the details and say that in principle there is no reason why human eyes couldn't do this kind of experiment. That would be cool because it would ensure that the two human observers involved in the test would become entangled, albeit for a short period time. The team, led by Nic Gisin, a world leader on entanglement, says it is actively pursuing this goal (abstract) so we could have the first humans to experience entanglement within months."
Entanglement? Sounds cool! (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, okay, so I just watched X-Men on cable.
First humans to experience entanglement? (Score:2, Funny)
Hrmm. "The first humans to experience entanglement", huh? And how long before the experiment becomes the basis for a porn movie plot?
uh oh ... (Score:4, Funny)
I sense a host of new bad pickup lines coming in the near future.
Also (Score:3, Funny)
It can see sexy action at a distance.
It takes two to tango (Score:5, Funny)
Frogs (Score:4, Funny)
But on a more serious note, what does it really mean for two people to become entangled? And does it matter that the photons are detected by a human retina? Could the entanglement just as easily happen if the photons were fired into my left butt-cheek?
these guys don't get out much? (Score:5, Funny)
so we could have the first humans to experience entanglement within months
I'm guessing the avalanche of crazy whacked out girlfriend stories is about to start...
Re:these guys don't get out much? (Score:5, Funny)
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to get back to stalking this one chick....
Re:Frogs (Score:5, Funny)
I've heard that frogs have the ability to detect single photons [iop.org]. This is from a cryptographer who jokingly proposed a frog-based system for quantum key distribution.
So I'm guessing that the unit of measurement for frog-based quantum encryption is the "ribbet".
Re:What it'd be like to be entangled: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:these guys don't get out much? (Score:5, Funny)
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to get back to stalking this one chick....
Sorry to disappoint you. That is a guy with female login-id.
Re:uh oh ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Handfuls? (Score:3, Funny)
No. They are statute.
huh? Wha? (Score:3, Funny)
I know, I know, I should do a Google search. Problem is, I suspect that I'd have to construct my search queries very carefully, as I worry about what kind of results I'd get...
Re:First humans to experience entanglement? (Score:3, Funny)
And how long before the experiment becomes the basis for a porn movie plot?
You'll be hearing from my lawyers in the morning.
Re:Entanglement? Sounds cool! (Score:3, Funny)
In LAB COATS!1!
Re:uh oh ... (Score:5, Funny)
Baby, I feel so connected to you. Almost like we simultaneously (from the perspective of a fixed point midway between us) observed a set of photons with quantum properties amplified from the quantum properties of a single photon, that single photon being one of a pair of photons with linked quantum states, so that by observing the photons we caused their probabilities to collapse into a single observed state which was not predetermined but which was shared by both photons, a result which we later confirmed by comparing our observations using a conventional method of information sharing which propagated at less than the speed of light. Ya know, entangled. Don't you feel it?
Actually, I've heard of worse pickup lines.
Re:Frogs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:uh oh ... (Score:3, Funny)
Read me Dr. Memory?
Systat Uptime I have been awake for 9 hours 53 seconds.
Re:these guys don't get out much? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:uh oh ... (Score:5, Funny)
Bad pickup lines? They certainly worked well enough when I became entangled with your mom last night!
Re:It takes two to tango (Score:3, Funny)
Leviticus 23:45
He also goes on to talk about not getting quantumly entangled with beasts of the field.
In fact theres not very many Jewish physicists, because of the risk of accidently entangling yourself with a passing insect or even a flamboyantly gay bosun.
SI Units (Score:5, Funny)
I shudder at the thought of kibiribbits.
Re:these guys don't get out much? (Score:5, Funny)
Not here, I never saw my crazy (ex) girlfriend coming...
For people who are about to post an immature, snide comment about this being the possible reason for HartDev and his girlfriend's estrangement (ostensibly due to HartDev's ineffectual sexual performance) or how they have personally witnessed the orgasmic pleasure of HartDev's ex-girlfriend (insinuating that they not only were able to locate the ex-girlfriend of a virtually anonymous poster, but have also succeeded in obtaining coitus with her and moreover had satisfied her pure animal lust one warm summer night with the moonlight playing upon her silken hair, her nipples erect on her firm heaving breasts, while every thrust of the throbbing manhood penetrated deep within her quivering quim bringing her ever closer to a screaming climax the likes of which only the mythical consorts of the Greek gods have ever experienced), please take note:
HartDev is blind, you insensitive clods!
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ah, but once entangled... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:SI Units (Score:5, Funny)
Are we gonna have to start using Kermit again? ...and I was getting used to high speed connections.
Re:uh oh ... (Score:2, Funny)
The gig is up as soon as you hit the word "photons" there
Re:uh oh ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:uh oh ... (Score:5, Funny)
Your moma so fat even if I'd entangle with her no information would be able to leave her event horizon.
Re:It takes two to tango (Score:5, Funny)
Re:uh oh ... (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody has managed to put gravitation and QM together yet, and you want to do it in a your-momma-so-fat-joke? Wow.
Re:uh oh ... (Score:3, Funny)
Your mom's so massive she emitted you at just 14 years old.
Re:Entanglement? Sounds cool! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Entanglement? Sounds cool! (Score:5, Funny)
I want them wrapped. Same as my gifts.
Doesn't mean they will stay wrapped for very long. ;)
Re:Pickup Lines (Score:3, Funny)
When trying to use on a female quantum physicist the pickup line both works and doesn't work. But once the quantum states collapse you'll get slapped regardless. Those chicks are extra spooky!
Re:uh oh ... (Score:2, Funny)