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Sympathetic resonance. Two guitars in a room, pluck the A string of one, the other A string will vibrate. “Spooky action at a distance”
by pyinstallwoes 1y ago
Sympathetic resonance. Two guitars in a room, pluck the A string of one, the other A string will vibrate. “Spooky action at a distance”
- slow_typist 1y agoIf that is what they wanted to say they did a very bad job. And spooky action at a distance is a term related to quantum entanglement, which has probably nothing to do with the phenomenon they tried to describe here.
- evanb 1y agoYou're right; this is nothing to do with spooky action at a distance. But sympathetic response, or resonance, is how this device would work---just like a radio. Axions couple to electromagnetism; by listening in on different frequencies we can see if there is any "cosmic signal being broadcast" (meaning: axions suffusing the galaxy); the frequency of the signal corresponds to the mass of the axion. In that sense, the search for resonances is a classic approach in particle physics; various particles were discovered by finding increased signals at particular collision energies. What's different here is that it isn't a resonance in a collision cross-section but an axion --> electromagnetism conversion.
- staplung 1y agoAny chance this could lead to a resonance cascade? I saw some documentary where that happened at a remote corporate facility in the desert somewhere...Dark Table maybe. I was surprised to see such heavy use of a crowbar at a place doing advanced physics. ;-)