Einstein was right, you can be in two places at once - Polidicks

[quote]A device that exists in two different states at the same time, and coincidentally proves that Albert Einstein was right when he thought he was wrong, has been named as the scientific breakthrough of the year. The machine, consisting of a sliver of wafer-thin metal, is the first man-made device to be governed by the mysterious quantum forces that operate at the level of atoms and sub-atomic particles. Normal, everyday objects obey the laws of conventional Newtonian physics, named after Sir Isaac Newton, but these rules break down on the sub-atomic scale and a whole new branch of theoretical physics had to be invented to explain what happens on this sub-microscopic level. Einstein was the first to embrace quantum physics but later rejected it on the grounds that it made everything unpredictable – "God does not play dice with the universe," he famously stated. However, a range of effects has been recorded over the past few years that can only be explained by quantum mechanics and in March scientists were able to build the first device that seemed to follow the quantum rules that Einstein was the first to realise applied to light waves. The breakthrough, recognised by the journal Science as the most significant this year, opens the way to a range of practical developments such as quantum computers that are far faster than conventional processors and which could never be hacked into because they handle and transmit data using an unbreakable form of encryption. "Quantum theory dictates that a very tiny thing can absorb energy only in discrete amounts, can never sit perfectly still, and can literally be in two places at once," said Adrian Cho, a writer for Science. "This represents the first time that scientists have demonstrated quantum effects in the motion of a human-made object. It opens up a variety of possibilities ranging from new experiments that meld quantum control over light, electrical currents and motion to, perhaps someday, tests of the bounds of quantum mechanics and our sense of reality." The breakthrough was achieved by physicists Andrew Cleland and John Martinis from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Their machine consisted of a tiny metal paddle made of semiconductor material just visible to the naked eye. By supercooling the device to just above absolute zero (minus 273C), then raising its energy by a "single quantum", they made it vibrate by getting thicker and thinner at a frequency of some 6 billion times a second, producing a detectable electric current. They even managed to get it to vibrate in two energy states at once, both a lot and a little – a phenomenon allowed only by the rules of quantum mechanics. "Physicists still haven't achieved a two-places-at-once state with a tiny object like this one," Mr Cho said. "But now that they have reached this simplest state of quantum motion, it seems a whole lot more obtainable." [/quote] [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/einstein-was-right-you-can-be-in-two-places-at-once-2162648.html[/url]

Sounds good.

Does that mean I can fuck girls whilst looking at facepunch? :buddy:

this is old news [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/910659-Macroscopic-Object-Put-into-Quantum-Superposition?highlight=[/url]

Cool, I can read stuff like this, and watch porn at the same time! :v:

so I can be there while I'm here even though I'm not there and here when I am? :psyduck:

[QUOTE=poopsicle;26776229]Does that mean I can fuck girls whilst looking at facepunch? :buddy:[/QUOTE] No, it means you can look at girls getting fucked whilst looking at facepunch. :v:

Wow, with this I can give myself a handjob!

[QUOTE=poopsicle;26776229]Does that mean I can fuck girls whilst looking at facepunch? :buddy:[/QUOTE] No. Because you'll never fuck girls.

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;26776230]this is old news [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/910659-Macroscopic-Object-Put-into-Quantum-Superposition?highlight=[/url][/QUOTE] The rate it late and move on, don't make casual remarks that clutter the posts, as this one itself has done.

[QUOTE=Dj-J3;26776255]No, it means you can look at girls getting fucked whilst looking at facepunch. :v:[/QUOTE] I knew this was coming.

[QUOTE=john_pelphre;26776273]The rate it late and move on, don't make casual remarks that clutter the posts, as this one itself has done.[/QUOTE] Who died and made you king of the authoritarian assholes?

[QUOTE=The Finder;26776271]No. Because you'll never fuck girls.[/QUOTE] u jelly [editline]19th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Vinze;26776304]Who died and made you king of the authoritarian assholes?[/QUOTE] who died and made you the king of complaining about authoritarian. :colbert:

Now I can go to the bathroom while playing video games.

[QUOTE=poopsicle;26776229]Does that mean I can fuck girls whilst looking at facepunch? :buddy:[/QUOTE] You don't have to be in two places at once to do that, just sit in your computer chair :smug:

[QUOTE=JaxJesse315;26776361]Now I can go to the bathroom while playing video games.[/QUOTE] Laptops solved this problem ages ago

Yay for Science :science:

[QUOTE=Chrille;26776493]Laptops solved this problem ages ago[/QUOTE] enjoy the updraft from the bottom causing shit to literally hit the fan

so i can meet myself?

Can somebody translate this to dumbass for me

Lets say I was at two places at the same time, and someone killed me at the other location. What would happen? [img]http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/voodoo-dolls-large.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=farmatyr;26776668]Lets say I was at two places at the same time, and someone killed me at the other location. What would happen? [img_thumb]http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/voodoo-dolls-large.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] You cannot interact with any matter for to be two places at once as for as I know.

Wow we are discovering shit that he already discovered without the evidence. What the fuckkkkkk!?

[QUOTE=farmatyr;26776668]Lets say I was at two places at the same time, and someone killed me at the other location. What would happen? [img_thumb]http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/voodoo-dolls-large.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] you'd die. you may be in two places at once , but there isn't two of you.

what if you kill the real you?

Blowjobs galore.

[QUOTE=ZapDing;26777669]what if you kill the real you?[/QUOTE] There is no "fake" you.

[QUOTE=Rct33;26777462]You cannot interact with any matter for to be two places at once as for as I know.[/QUOTE] There's always interaction. This thing called gravity.

ITT people misunderstand what this (old) Discovery is about.

The "Einstein was right" statement is hardly accurate since he was one of the biggest opponents of quantum mechanics