Subject: Schrodinger Confirmed; support for Alternative Universe Theories.
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klaatu <root@earthops.org> wrote:
>This just in.
>
>In the curent issue of _Science Magazine_ (AAAS)
>
>http://science-mag.aaas.org/science/scripts/display/short/272/5265/1101.html
>
>You'll find an intersting little blurb regarding the discovery of a
>"schizophrenic atom" or 'Schrodinger's Kitten'.
>
>Schrodinger's Cat, as most of you should know, is a classic though
>experiment designed to demonstrate to the layman the fact that universes are
>created at each subatomic event.
>
>A cat is placed into a box, with a poison capsule and a device designed to
>break the capsule when the splitting of a radioactive isotope is detected.
>At the time when the isotope is statistically 50-50 regarding decay, one
>says that there is a 50-50 chance that the cat is dead. Is it alive or is it
>dead? goes the classic though experiment. Neither? Actually, sort of both...
>two universes exist, in one of which the cat lives, in the other it is dead
>or dying (considered to be the same for the sake of argument).
>
>You simply cannot tell until you look into the box. There's some
>derivational logic which insists that both the cat and the observer exist in
>a quantum flux, as it were, where the cat is both and neither alive and/or
>dead. Of course, the second you look into the box, you determine in which
>universe you lie.
>
>Scientists at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) in
>Boulder, Colorado, have demonstrated that it is possible to be in two places
>at the same time, or more properly, it is possible for tow discrete and
>opposite quantum states to exist in the same timespace, or possibly (this
>has yet to be determined) to bridge 'dimensions' or possibly (and this is
>more germane to those who want to believe that we're being invaded by
>'interdimensional elves' <grin>) that it is possible to force universes of
>different outcome to cohabit not only the same space but the same
>reference-frame. In effect, this is a clear and clean fully-documeted
>demonstration that gateways between realities are not only possible, but
>do-able, if costly.
>
>The researchers trapped and supercooled a single beryllium atom that was
>missing one of its two outer electrons. they then poked it with just enough
>laser energy to place it halfway between two spin states. Normally, these
>states would be superimposed on each other, just like the dead/alive
>Schrodinger's Cat at the moment of statistacal 50-50 probabilty of the
>trigger isotope splitting, each with an equal probability of occurring.
>
>The NIST team nudged the atom with laser beams at just the right radiation
>to affect the spin-state in an opposite (presumably mutually-exclusive) way.
>Incredibly, the two states sepereated _into two physical locations dozens of
>times wider than the atom itself. the beryllium ion that was once neither
>here nor ther was now in two distinct places at once.
>
>the cat's outta th' bag, folks.
>
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>
>Interestingly, this is quite similar to a concept expressed in a SF novel
>about 20 years ago, by one Dr. Alan Nourse, who predicted that
>interdimensional access (to a 4-d universe, in this case) would be effected
>accidentally through a search for absolute zero. He expanded this concept
>literarily to propose that the supercooled element (unspecified)
>latticed-out into a hypercube array, and this might allow the first
>functional 'transmatter' or matter transmitter.
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>
>How does this affect speculation on such matters as the Philadelphia
>Experiment conjecture? Who th' heck knows? But in my opinion, this certainly
>opens the doorway for speculation on hyperspace travel. without the need for
>anchored wormholes, or flatspace access.
>
>One might hypothesize that if an atom could be made to exist in two places
>at one, in effect this is quantum tunnelling on the order of wormhole
>transactions between event horizons of rotating black holes.
>
>One might also hypothesize that could a planar array of bilocated atoms (my
>term, gimme credit!) be generated and could energies be somehow applied to
>control the distances between the tow locations of the same atom, one could
>perhaps achieve either temporal or dimensional travel by moving at right
>angles to the plane, or by moving through the olume defined by the planes of
>seperation between the planar surfaces of bilocated planar arrays.
>
>I sure do wish I understood the math, I'd like to try to work on this
>further.
>
>Have fun!
>--
>klaatu
>my sig is borken!
J.E.M. / "All things come to
myersj@gactr.uga.edu / he who waits."
alt.immortal / I have time. Q