Chinese physicists measure speed of Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’: At least 10,000 times faster than light | ExtremeTech
Nothing is faster than the speed of light. Except now we know quantum entanglement trumps that. Wow.
A team of Chinese physicists have clocked the speed of spooky action at a distance — the seemingly instantaneous interaction between entangled quantum particles — at more than four orders of magnitude faster than light. Their equipment and methodology doesn’t allow for an exact speed, but four orders of magnitude puts the figure at around 3 trillion meters per second.
Spooky action at a distance was a term coined by Einstein to describe how entangled quantum particles seem to interact with each other instantaneously, over any distance, breaking the speed of light and thus relativity. As of our current understanding of quantum mechanics, though, it is impossible to send data using quantum entanglement, preserving the theory of relativity. A lot of work is being done in this area, though, and some physicists believe that faster-than-light communication might be possible with some clever manipulation of entangled particles.
Woohoo, I finally got a link to the pictures from Brenda and my boat trip! I bought a CD of the pictures at the end of the trip, but when I got home it was blank (she was burning it as I stood there, so I know it wasn't intentional), but they finally emailed me pictures. Sadly, they are not nearly as awesome as I would've thought, mostly--she had a really nice camera, and was taking lots of photos, but most of them aren't much better than mine with my basic point and shoot! Sad.
I know I've worked with a wide group of people over my almost 22 years at my company. But I continue to boggle when someone I don't know refers someone else to me. And says "Suzi is a wiz at xxxxx". Ummmm, thank you, but I don't know you so how the heck to you know my skill set?
Sue - meeting~ma to you.
Hivemind: on Monday, as part of a job interview, I have to give a very short (5-7 minute) presentation on grantwriting for novices. What springs to mind is to use the metaphor or applying for a job, since many of the same factors are in play (finding a good fit between the granting agency and your project, the need to respond specifically and explicitly to the granting agency's criteria in the application, the need for good writing with no distracting mistakes). Is it a bad idea to use this metaphor since I am, in fact, applying for a job while making my presentation?
Good luck, Scrappy. I'm sure you'll wow all of them.
Oh and congrats on the retail therapy, Consuela. You've more than earned a splurge.
If that old guy had slapped me as a little kid and called me a cripple, he'd probably have to be scared for his life.(I think that would make my mother ferocious and have turned the debate to Vengeance: How far is too far?
flea, I think the metaphor is fine other than it's almost not a metaphor. But yeah, def the first that springs to mind.
No, I don't think it is a bad metaphor. It is probably better than using a "dating metaphor" which I have seen used in grantwriting presentations.
I would keep the metaphor light with some humor. That will probably win the day.
