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Human eye may be able to detect quantum entanglement

• swombat 18y ago
  Could it be that Gisin thinks there is more to entanglement than meets the eye? Ooooh, I love the smell of a cheap, cheap joke in the morning :-) Regarding the actual question, I think this is a case of garnering publicity (and attached funding) rather than of needing eyes to test entanglement. Instruments have served as adequate "observers" for some time now as far as I know, so I don't think there are any philosophical implications to having a human observer as opposed to any other kind of observer.
• jacquesm 18y ago
  interesting details: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/see_a_photon.html http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/see_a_photon.h...
• jimrandomh 18y ago
  While I'm sure that a human eye counts as an observer for purposes of collapsing quantum wavefunctions, I'm pretty sure that an inert brick of clay is, too.
• time_management 18y ago
  It's asking me for a password and snubbing me when I don't have one.
  • markup 18y ago
    You can read it through google's cache: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:EP3z1pmfq1EJ:arxivblog.com/+the+physics+arXiv+blog&hl=it&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=safari http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:EP3z1pmfq1EJ:arxivblog.c... "Human eye could detect spooky action at a distance".
  • mkelly 18y ago
    I get a page that says "web server is ok " (yes, with the trailing space). Lies! Web server is clearly not ok.