re: #71 freetoken

Another case: Here’s an article in Nature from several months ago, for which New Scientist for some reason runs a story this week:

Reimagining of Schrödinger’s cat breaks quantum mechanics — and stumps physicists

The original work is from a couple of years prior but it took that long to wind through the publication process.

The subject is similar to (and the participants also) the arxiv paper that has fluffed up the latest click-bait headlines.

The bottom line is this: when it comes to the very small, things (elementary particles) “exist” not as in a single state but possible states, all of which are real.

It takes a lot of woo, though, to try and expand that to our everyday macroscopic world.

just watched a Numbers episode (hey, I was bored, and Amazon has all the episodes) where I learned (possibly) that there is a theory that all photons come in pairs, and that regardless of where they find themselves, they maintain some kind of resonance with one another (they didn’t use that word. that’s my non-science word that sort of makes sense to me). So something’s happening down there. What it is ain’t exactly clear.