Quantum mystics

Jeroen Belleman · 2024-06-09T18:46:53+00:00

I just watched a talk by Anton Zeilinger, professor of physicsat the university of Vienna, and 2022 Nobel laureate, aboutquantum effects and entanglement.I feel a rant bubbling up!The guy is a mystic, a fraud! He pretended to demonstrate thatlight consists of particles by showing a little box that startsclicking, like a Geiger counter, when exposed to light. Even ifthe little box really did detect light, that means nothing! Light*detection* is quantized, yes, but that does not imply that lightitself is so too.He attempted to convince the public that entanglement means thatthe results of measurements made at two remote places come outidentically, and without any time delay. That's just not true,but he didn't even give a hint of how this really works. He didnot mention that you have to make *correlated* measurements todetect entanglement. For that, you need to communicate *what*measurement is to be made at each location, and that impliesthat you either prescribe the exact measurement in advance orselect a subset of the results after the fact. Either way, thisskews the data.He's in it for the money and the fame. Grrr. And he's one ofmany, too.Jeroen Belleman

Quantum mystics

Jun 09, 2024 Last reply: 2 years ago 43 Replies

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Bill Sloman 2 years ago

Quite a few. None that feel the need to flattered.

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Bill Sloman 2 years ago

At age 81 it's certainly hard to persuade the personnel department that you have anything to offer. Being treasurer of the NSW branch of the IEEE is role, rather than a job, because I don't get paid for it.

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Jeroen Belleman 2 years ago

Yes, but you'd need to use quite dense stuff to have a good chance of intercepting it. Lead tungstate is the thing these days.

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john larkin 2 years ago

I suspect that a tight spectral resolution (and some gamma lines are a few per cent wide) implies high detection efficiency.

Visible light is just too wimpy to get clear quantum detection.

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