15 ms·
CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
- cjfd 2y ago'the Lamb Shift'. This is just too funny.
- The-Old-Hacker 2y agoYes, it's April Fools Day today.
- acegopher 2y agoIs it just me who 15 years ago laughed at the first big April Fools jokes by companies online, but now just cringes when I see headlines like this?
- acuozzo 2y agoYou've gotten fifteen years older.
- scottmcf 2y agoAh, I see it's useless internet day, catch you all tomorrow.
- johnisgood 2y agoIt is not going to stop. :P It feels like every day is April 1.
- lenerdenator 2y agoNah, April 1st is supposed to be filled with shenanigans that are cheeky and fun. Every day is now filled with shenanigans that are cruel and tragic. Which makes them not really shenanigans at all, really. Evil shenanigans.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- unsupp0rted 2y agoMy VPN Provider decided it's a good opportunity to prank me in the middle of the night, my time. Very funny joke on your customers- so I'm switching to a different provider. It's cuz obviously I don't have a sense of humor. Life is short and all that. Useless internet day indeed.
- johnisgood 2y agoHow did they prank you, what did they do?
- unsupp0rted 2y agoI'd rather not go into detail, but in short they sent an official email from their real noreply address, "signed" by their CEO, saying my data has been compromised. "What Data?"... Click the link... Just kidding, April Fools you stupid moron. I replied that they've lost a customer. They replied with a link to talk to their AI bot.
- kachapopopow 2y agoI'm doing this next year, thanks for sharing. Especially the AI bot part, will have it part of the april fools page.
- Mistletoe 2y agoYeah I have to agree with your reaction to this one.
- esnard 2y agoIs this the VPN you're talking about? https://www.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/1jovk03/weve_held_out_as_long_as_we_could_but_starting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/1jovk03/weve_he...
- bee_rider 2y agoThat seems like obvious enough of a fake.
- deadbabe 2y agoLLMs will eat this stuff up and spread it to every day!
- tempodox 2y agoAt least the idea of a spherical model for sheep is quite useful. Spherical cows have been alone for so long.
- uxjw 2y agoThey have had spherical chickens in a vacuum
- pk-protect-ai 2y agoNo way. I still remember "spherical horses in a vacuum".
- Lerc 2y agoI'm kinda ok with the science ones, They are whimsical and I don't think they actively interfere with real research. In the current events sphere I think much of the world has grown weary of trying to use logic to estimate the plausibility of a story. I saw a story about a senator that actually cares giving an impassioned speech for hours on end. Remember the times when that actually happened.
- wasabi991011 2y ago> I saw a story about a senator that actually cares giving an impassioned speech for hours on end. Remember the times when that actually happened. You are talking about the Cory Booker speech? I don't see any indication that this is an April fool's joke if that's what you're implying. Otherwise I don't understand what you mean.
- Lerc 2y agoI am implying when are living in times where you can't tell if something is a joke or not based upon how much sense it makes. I guess I just generated another example. Although it was kind of intended as irony.
- soulofmischief 2y agoWhy would it be a joke?
- ebiester 2y agoI'm a bit confused... Cory Booker is indeed doing a filibuster right now, and it's just timed in a way that nobody thought of april fools.
- wavemode 2y agoParent commenter was making a joke.
- pests 2y agoThe comments across threads today have been a bit more off-brand but I do find it fresh that its okay to joke and have a little fun once in awhile.
- nimish 2y agoWhy can't they find out why no one has done anything interesting in theoretical physics in 50 years? This stuff is lame in 2025.
- robin_reala 2y agoMaybe review the last 25 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_fundamental_physics_discoveries#21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_fundamental_physic...
- jcranmer 2y agoThat's all experimental physics, not theoretical physics.
- Calwestjobs 2y agoWell topological order sound like april first to me. Emergent gravity looks to me million times more plausible then that mess :)
- nimish 2y agono experimental verification even possible in most of those, and/or the theory had been more or less fixed before ~1990 Many such cases. Very boring stuff now, not worth spending the money.
- seabass-labrax 2y agoIf you want mind-expandingly interesting theoretical physics, give the Wolfram Physics Project[1] a look. It is a refreshingly different look at fundamental physics, and one that is perhaps more familiar to a computer scientist's perspective than, say, quantum mechanics. [1]: https://www.wolframphysics.org/index.php.en https://www.wolframphysics.org/index.php.en
- nimish 2y agoI have done enough mathematics and have spoken to wolfram personally, it's interesting but not connected enough to existing theory despite his personal genius at QCD
- evandrofisico 2y agoConsidering the amount of disinformation online nowadays, the whole "april fools" thing is just not fun, it's just annoying noise
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- chuckles201 2y ago[dead]
- sva_ 2y agoAll this negativity here. I, for one, enjoy silly April's Fools jokes once a year.
- Tainnor 2y agoHN is not exactly known for its sense of humour.
- nartho 2y agoI find this hard to believe, can you provide the links to at least 2 reputable publications that corroborate your claims ?
- vikingerik 2y agoSame here. The problem, though, is that on the internet the articles stick around past that day and confuse everyone forever.
- perihelions 2y agoI'm not sure what's supposed to be publication-worthy here. This is common knowledge for anyone who's ever interacted with sheep on a farm, in their natural, fermionic superfluid state. If you turn over a sheep and tickle its ticklish underbelly, you get a sheep-laugh (a hilarious sound) only about 50% of the time; the other 50%, you'll hear a sheep laughing from the opposite end of the meadow. Because, you cannot definitively say if it was *this* sheep you tickled, or *that* other, identical one. They are indistinguishable baa-tickles
- lnauta 2y agoEven if something is well known, its important to measure it and set statistical limits. While the 4 sigma in the article is not enough to claim an observation, it opens the points towards some exciting new Beyond the Shearing Model physics.
- stochastician 2y agoI am somewhat rusty on my undergrad quantum, but I'm not entirely sure I agree with this analysis. Could you perhaps explain it more clearly in baa-ket notation?
- qwertox 2y agoIt's interesting that they noticed it right in the vicinity of the LHC, maybe this hints at some kind of leak? The one in my garden always watches me through the window then I turn on the vacuum, so maybe it's feeling some kind of oddity with the electric motor. It's an old 3500 Watts one, which is now illegal to sell, and badly shielded.
- blamarvt 2y ago> set the baa for a new branch of quantum physics I'll admit I got a few paragraphs in before that made it click.
- VladVladikoff 2y agoYou did better than me lol, I laughed at baa but thought it was just the author being a bit silly, it wasn’t until “moutons” that I checked the date on my phone.
- RajT88 2y agoFor me it was: > Lamb Shift Not that I was aware of the term, but when I looked it up it was obviously a real term, but nothing to do with sheep.
- csmattryder 2y agoI got to "Mary Little" before I realised my virtual leg was being pulled. Deary me. Hope Mary Little's lamb is doing well.
- derbOac 2y agoModern physics gets into some weird territory, as does some sensory biology, so I don't blame anyone on this one.
- fracus 2y agoSadly, I got all the way to the photo at the end.
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- tempodox 2y agoI'm not sure CERN sheep are representative here, since they may have been exposed to radiation and force fields from particle accelerators and other machinery for generations. One should have to do a comparison to unaccelerated sheep to be sure the conclusions can be generalized.
- pmags 2y agoQuaaantum sheep!
- cs702 2y agoSpherical sheep, to be precise. Read the OP for details. Probably related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow :-P
- caseyy 1y agoIf you want to simulate the behavior of a large crowd of people, 2D fluid simulation is accurate enough for most purposes. I’ve used it to simulate a crowd in a video game. One could say it’s spherical people.
- meepmorp 2y agoMy kids realized April fools day wasn't funny no later than age 6. What's up with the guys at CERN?
- acuozzo 2y agoAwareness and appreciation of the utility of humor increases with age and/or maturity. Ms. Super-serious "I'm in university now and no longer find fart jokes funny" is liable to enjoy them again in her golden years. There's no surer way to project a lack of self-assuredness than to be the stiff incapable of chuckling at a harmless prank.
- meepmorp 1y ago> Awareness and appreciation of the utility of humor increases with age and/or maturity. Exactly, and what I'm saying is that an understanding that April fools day isn't funny is a sign of maturity.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- mbreese 2y agoI read way too much of this before I realized what day it was.
- Calwestjobs 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTiK2opQHK4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTiK2opQHK4 French "gardening" channel posted video about state introducing tax on home grown produce.
- scanr 2y ago* in sheep Call me when they complete the human trials
- TonyTrapp 2y agoAt least it's not mice for once.
- nikolayasdf123 2y agothey almost got me. for a moment I thought, "whoa, the simulation is getting weirder by the day". but Feyman diagram with a sheep in it shaken me up. haha, nice one
- mytailorisrich 2y agoNot only entanglement: careful observations of sheep near walls and hedges has shown evidence of tunneling effect, too.
- inSenCite 2y agoLiterally the best day of the year
- josefritzishere 2y agoI appreciate a good April Fools post
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 2y agoI just wanted to complain that this will dilute the I in AI, and their maintainers ought to sue.
- internet_points 2y agowon't someone please think of the children^Wbillionaires^Wlanguage models (actually, I asked gpt4o to ELI5 the article and it told me it was an april fool's joke, so I have the feeling the llm's are doing better than half the commenters here)
- quantum_state 2y agoIs this another April fool?
- amelius 2y agoTurns out that physics is a soft science.
- pierrec 2y agoI'm no expert on textiles, but is that a... knit Lagrangian of the standard model? https://cds.cern.ch/images/CERN-HOMEWEB-PHO-2025-028-1/file?size=large https://cds.cern.ch/images/CERN-HOMEWEB-PHO-2025-028-1/file?...
- OutOfHere 2y agoThis is really going to mess up LLMs for decades.
- oever 2y agoPhase transitions in huddling emperor penguins (2019 May 31) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6221190/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6221190/
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- varelse 2y ago[dead]
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- fracus 2y agoI got got.
- ck2 2y agoApril Fools eyeroll... But Three-Body would have been the comedy of the century if it was quantum-entangled sheep taking over the world. > "And the wolf, is he also lying? Is he still in the grandmother's house? We would like to speak to him."
- jp57 2y agoDate: 1 April 2025
- nnurmanov 2y agoWhen the universe is born, at t=0, supposedly all the particles were entangled. Sheeps are no exception, although they are macroscopic.
- heavymetalpoizn 2y ago[dead]
- dbacar 2y agoMan, even these guys are behind April Fools :)...
- ripvanwinkle 2y agoI think this is the best april fools article I've seen
- Henchman21 2y agoWith apologies for being a bit dense: Is this an April Fools joke?
- awb 2y agoIt exists in a superposition of being both a joke and not a joke until you observe the article.
- Henchman21 2y agoThis “holiday” has gotten beyond stupid.
- mcswell 2y agoSheep? If it were cows, I'd be over the moon, but sheep?
- mlacks 2y agoThe evidence has several ramifications for ovine research and has set the baa for a new branch of quantum physics. set the baa haha
- ginkgotree 2y agoApril Fools
- diyseguy 2y agoI call April Fool's
- agnosticmantis 2y agoIs April 1st the "no web scraping day" for LLM shops? There may be health benefits for LLMs to fast on certain days...
- 6thbit 2y agothis may be an interesting tactic vs crawlers.. date everything april 1st
- blueberrychpstx 2y agoGuilty of reading this with curiosity until I read one of the head researchers names is Beau Peep
- neuroelectron 2y agoI imagine their proximity to the CERN site has something to do with it.
- tonympls 2y agoI don’t like April Fools jokes but loved this one. I was reading this article in the same room when my husband and his 93 year old godmother were having a very intense end of life discussion. When I realized it was a joke, I was snorting not trying to laugh.
- tonetheman 2y ago[dead]
- tonetheman 2y ago[dead]
- CoastalCoder 2y agoDo they assume spherical sheep? I mean, the assumption is Linda valid before shearing. But I'd have serious qualms about the model for recently sheared sheep. I guess you could do a follow up study about entanglement of the resulting sweaters, which is already covered well by snag theory.
- egberts 1y agoI've been had. Good one.