Let Quantum Physics Officiate Your Wedding 70
disco_tracy writes "Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has come up with the ultimate in a nondenominational wedding ceremony: quantum entanglement. From the article: 'Keats has designed an entangling apparatus, which, when situated in a sunny window and exposed to the full spectrum of solar radiation, divides pairs of entangled photons and translates them to the bodies of a nearby couple.' As unusual as it seems, the ceremony is serious business to Keats, who says, 'The quantum marriage will literally be broken up by skepticism about it.'"
Non-monogamous discrimination! (Score:1)
Even in quantum physics! :(
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I'm sorry to hear of your pain.
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Yes, but then each pair of particles is at best partially entangled with each other.
A different way (Score:3)
My version of the quantum entanglement wedding ceremony employs lasers with nice coherent, monochromatic light.
And sharks, of course,
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And sharks, of course,
With friggin' lasers on their head.
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You spotted a joke!
Good for you.
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I spotted someone who spotted someone who spotted a joke!
Good for me.
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You didn't miss much.
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I spotted a joke, which started the whole world crying
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Chuck Norris doesn't spot jokes. He just looks grim, and the joke stops being funny.
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A Chuck Norris joke about Chuck Norris making jokes unfunny. That's such an excellent comment on the meme that it's almost back around to funny again.
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.., Almost.
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I spot those who don't spot jokes. Do I spot myself?
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I spot those who don't spot jokes. Do I spot myself?
Yes.
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And your vows will be... (Score:2)
"If you're going to be That Way about it, I'll use stronger lasers, next time!"
Or perhaps...
"A cutting laser, Igor? I vow I'll make you pay for this, if it's the last thing I do!"
Yes, go ahead and use a laser for your ceremony. It'll make for a brief, but shining moment in the life of your bride, one she'll remember for the rest of her life.
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'Til doubt do us part?
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That's not saying much...
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Only if you open the box...
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Well, it will give interesting new legal problems, given that in a quantum wedding, you can say "yes" and "no" at the same time.
one method to prove that... (Score:5, Funny)
Many marriages do exist, but when you look closer....don't.
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I think if you use the entanglement device with someone other than your spouse it can end the marriage too.
Re:Skepticism? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Wait - does that mean I *can't* wish things into being?
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It would have helped if whomever came up with that analogy hadn't said "observer", and instead been more precise.
It's an example of science needing more people who know how to communicate ideas with the common people.
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Pop-quantum physics is, alas, absolutely fucking rife with nonsense derived from the interpretation that the "observer" in ye olde Schrödinger's cat thought experiment means "conscious, in the way I imagine myself to be, observer" rather than "virtually any outside interaction that disrupts the closed system". From that fount much bullshit flows...
There have been serious arguments among academic philosophers based on that misconception.
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Pop-quantum physics is, alas, absolutely fucking rife with nonsense
The word that comes to mind is "incoherent"...
Eh... (Score:5, Funny)
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It can even be entangled, have rotation and spin.
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You can be top or bottom depending on preference, sometimes it is charming, sometimes strange.
Schrödinger's Wife (Score:3, Funny)
So does this mean you can be married and single at the same time, so long as no one is observing you?
Re:Schrödinger's Wife (Score:4, Funny)
The problem is that girlfriends abhor an un-collapsed wave function.
Re:Schrödinger's Wife (Score:5, Funny)
It means you can be entangled with many different partners at the same time, as long as no one is observing you...
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It means you can be entangled with many different partners at the same time, as long as no one is observing you...
No, at least not completely, due to the monogamy of entanglement.
(And no, I'm not making this up.) [google.com]
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Almost; you'd actually be (1/sqrt(2))*married + ((1/sqrt(2))*single. But, imagine the superpositions!
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Actually, the single part can also be imaginary:
(1/sqrt(2)) (|married> + i |single>)
Of course you can make the married state imaginary instead:
(1/sqrt(2)) (i |married> + |single>)
Note that both states are orthogonal to each other.
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Ah, quantum murder: As long as nobody looks, the victim isn't dead yet.
Combine this (Score:2)
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lol, you got me with that one
Hold on... you said WED? (Score:2)
I thought you said, WET.
I'm... ummmm... I'm not telling the cats, just yet. But there's no doubt in my mind, they're alive in there.
Why photons? (Score:2)
Seems to me that divided pairs of entangled electrons are much easier absorbed by the bodies of the couple to be wed.
That, and the prospect of getting a nice shock, which should make people think a bit harder about whether they really want to get married...
I thought it would be a Schroedinger's wedding (Score:2)
So you can be married and not married at the same time
Taken on Faith (Score:2)
Is this for real? Who would do this? (Score:2)
It's just some scamming weirdo gabbling nonsense words and peddling invisible snake oil.
If he wants to do that, he should do it the proper way: put on a silly outfit, give himself a self aggrandizing title, and pretend to cast spells to compel a Beardy Invisible Sky Giant to approve of the union. That's the way it's done dammit.
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My thoughts exactly. Being absorbed by the skin is an observation effect as far as the universe is concerned and would collapse the wave function.
It's a wedding.... (Score:2)
"It's just some scamming weirdo gabbling nonsense words and peddling invisible snake oil."
Sounds like most religious ceremony to me.
At the end of the day a wedding is nothing more than a legal contract. All of the other stuff is just ceremony. I think this is a great way to do a ceremony that at least has some grounding in reality.
Quantum Physics (Score:3)
DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
Quantum physics is spooky, not stupid.
Many Worlds interpretation (Score:2)
I just hope that you don't subscribe to the Many Worlds Interpretation, otherwise, immediately after your quantum wedding, you will be served with quantum divorce papers because:
1. In some possible universe you will have screwed the head bridesmaid on your wedding night
2. In some possible universe you will have won the lottery and become a multi-millionaire, and your soon-to-be-ex-partner wants half!
3. Your beloved really didn't appreciate you continually playing "My Beloved Monster" by Eels at the recep
Skepticism - the marriage killer (Score:2)
'The quantum marriage will literally be broken up by skepticism about it.'
I just want to say that I doubt the legitimacy of all weddings performed by quantum entanglement.
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Your photon will not unlikely to be reflected instead of absorbed, so you might not get entangled with her. She will most likely absorb her photon, and thus get entangled, but possibly not with you but with whoever or whatever absorbs that photon. :-)