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What would it look like if the rules of Quantum Mechanics applied to the Macro Level?

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What would it look like if the rules of Quantum Mechanics applied to the Macro Level?

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maybe have it apply to how people interact instead??

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Born and raised in the small town of Chappaqua, NY, I have always had the urge to get out and explore new environments. Most times I bring some sort of camera with me, which is how I grew to love photography. I have traveled with my phone camera, DSLR, and film camera to many different places from Costa Rica to Madrid, and I biked 3200 miles across the US capturing the different landscapes on an assortment of disposable film cameras. Photography has and will always provide me with a mind space to relax.

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The idea of soulmates mixed with quantum entanglement

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The idea of soulmates mixed with quantum entanglement

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When unobserved, electrons act as waves in that they are in superposition- so when they are shot at two slits, they pass through both at the same time. Whereas, when they are being observed, the wave interference pattern disappears and the electrons pass through the slits as one would expect they would. On the Macro level, everything behaves like the latter electrons that are observed, but what if this could change?

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Physics in a minute: The double slit experiment | plus.maths.org

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One of the most famous experiments in physics is the double slit experiment. It demonstrates, with unparalleled strangeness, that little particles of matter have something of a wave about them, and suggests that the very act of observing a particle has a dramatic effect on its behaviour.

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A cat in a closed box that has a 50/50 chance of living or dying exists in a state of both death and life before it is observed to be either dead or alive. What if everything in life is like this? What if things are only what we know them to be when we observe them?

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Schrödinger's cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics - Chad Orzel

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https://www.britannica.com/science/wave-particle-duality

Electrons are able to act as both particles and waves-- can a comparison be made on the macro level? Can something behave as two different things at the same time?

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wave-particle duality, possession by physical entities (such as light and electrons) of both wavelike and particle-like characteristics. On the basis of experimental evidence, German physicist Albert Einstein first showed (1905) that light, which had been considered a form of electromagnetic waves,…

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Quantum entanglement is one of the uber-bizarre phenomena seen when things get itty-bitty, or inside the quantum realm. When two or more particles link up in a certain way, no matter how far apart they are in space, their states remain linked. That means they share a common, unified quantum state. So observations of one of the particles can automatically provide information about the other entangled particles, regardless of the distance between them. And any action to one of these particles will invariably impact the others in the entangled system.

Who discovered quantum entanglement?

Physicists developed the fundamental ideas behind entanglement as they worked out the mechanics of the quantum world in the early decades of the 20th century. They found that to properly describe subatomic systems, they had to use something called a quantum state.

In the quantum world, nothing is ever known for certain; for example, you never know exactly where an electron in an is located, only where it might be. A quantum state summarizes the probability of measuring a certain property of a particle, like its position or angular momentum. So, for example, the quantum state of an electron describes all the places you might find it, together with the probabilities of finding the electron at those places.

Another feature of quantum states is that they can be correlated with other quantum states, meaning that measurements of one state can affect the other. In a 1935 paper, Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen examined how strongly correlated quantum states would interact with each other. They found that when two particles are strongly correlated, they lose their individual quantum states and instead share a single, unified state. Another way to think about it is that a single mathematical "container" can describe all particles simultaneously, regardless of their individual properties. This unified state would become known as quantum entanglement.

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They found that if two particles are entangled, meaning their quantum states are strongly correlated and become unified, then measurements of one of the particles automatically influence the other, no matter how far away the particles are from each other, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

The first physicist to use the word "entanglement" was Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics. He described entanglement as the most essential aspect of quantum mechanics, saying its existence is a complete departure from classical lines of thought.

What is the EPR paradox?

As Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen discovered, entanglement appears instantaneous: Once you have knowledge of one quantum state, you automatically know the quantum state of any entangled particles. In principle, you could place two entangled particles on opposite ends of the galaxy and still have this instantaneous knowledge, which appears to violate the limit of the speed of light.

This result is known as the EPR paradox (short for Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen), according to the American Physical Society - an effect Einstein dubbed "spooky action at a distance." He used the paradox as evidence that quantum theory was incomplete. But experiments have repeatedly confirmed that entangled particles do influence each other regardless of distance, and quantum mechanics remains verified to this day.

There is no generally accepted resolution to the paradox. However, although entangled systems do not maintain locality (meaning one part of an entangled system can immediately influence a faraway particle), they do respect causality, meaning that effects always have causes. An observer at the faraway particle does not know if the local observer has disturbed the entangled system, and vice versa. They must exchange information with each other no faster than the speed of light to confirm.

In other words, the limits imposed by the speed of light still hold with entangled systems. While you may know the status of a distant particle's state, you cannot communicate this information faster than the speed of light.

How do you create quantum entanglement?

There are many ways to entangle particles. One method is to cool the particles and place them close enough together so that their quantum states (representing the uncertainty in the position) overlap, making it impossible to distinguish one particle from the other.

Another way is to rely on some subatomic process, like nuclear decay, that automatically produces entangled particles. According to NASA, it's also possible to create entangled pairs of photons, or particles of light, by either splitting a single photon and generating a pair of photons in the process, or by mixing pairs of photons in a fiber-optic cable.

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What can quantum entanglement be used for?

Perhaps the most widely used application of quantum entanglement is in cryptography. According to Caltech Magazine, in this scenario, a sender and a receiver build a secure communication link that includes pairs of entangled particles. The sender and receiver use the entangled particles to generate private keys, known only to them, that they can use to encode their messages. If someone intercepts the signal and attempts to read the private keys, the entanglement breaks, because measuring an entangled particle changes its state. That means the sender and receiver will know that their communications have been compromised.

Another application of entanglement is quantum computing, in which large numbers of particles are entangled, thereby allowing them to work in concert to solve some large, complex problems. For example, a quantum computer with just 10 qubits (quantum bits) can represent the same amount of memory as 2^10 traditional bits.

What is quantum entanglement teleportation?

Contrary to the usual use of the word "teleport," quantum teleportation does not involve the movement or translation of particles themselves. Instead, in quantum teleportation, information about one quantum state is transported great distances and replicated somewhere else, according to Nature News.

It's best to think of quantum teleportation as the quantum version of traditional communication.

First, a sender prepares a particle to contain the information (i.e., the quantum state) they want to transmit. Then, they combine this quantum state with one of an entangled pair of particles. This causes a corresponding change in the other entangled pair, which can be sitting an arbitrary distance away.

The receiver then records the change in the entangled partner of the pair. Finally, the sender must transmit, via normal channels (i.e., limited by the speed of light), the original change made to the entangled pair. This allows the receiver to reconstruct the quantum state in the new location.

This may seem like a lot of work to pass along one measly piece of information, but quantum teleportation enables completely secure communication. If an eavesdropper intercepts the signal, they will break the entanglement, which would be revealed when the receiver compares the traditional signal to the changes made in the entangled pair.
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There comes a moment in every kids life where they realize that "Rock-a-bye Baby," which you've probably had sung to you on numerous occasions, is actually a song about a baby plummeting to their death. But that's not the only surprisingly creepy children's song or nursery rhyme. If you look into the origin of the songs we were encouraged to sing as children, it turns out a lot of them are way more disturbing than you ever realized.

Most nursery rhymes have been around for a long time - in fact, in some cases their origins go back hundreds and hundreds of years. They tend to change slightly over time, but the songs typically remain pretty recognizable through the ages. Of course, figuring out where exactly they came from, on the other hand, is sometimes less clear. However, over the years people have come up with lots of possible explanations for different nursery songs. And while some are pretty simple - or just simple nonsense - some possible origins are downright creepy.

It kind of makes you wonder how we wound up letting kids sing all of this stuff. Here are 11 nursery rhymes and children's songs that are way more disturbing than you ever realized.

Rub-a-dub-dub,

Three men in a tub,

And who do you think they were?

The butcher, the baker,

The candlestick-maker,

They all sailed out to sea,

'Twas enough to make a man stare.

I remember this song being illustrated in children's books with three men all bathing in one tub, so you might assume that this song is meant to be homoerotic, which would actually be kind of cool. But actually, the original song began "Rub-a-dub-dub/Three maids in a tub" [Emphasis added]. And it was probably meant to imply that either "the butcher, the baker," and the "candlestick maker" were all spying on women bathing or were going to a peep show in town. Which makes you think very differently about the "rub-a-dub-dub" line.

Baa, baa, black sheep,

Have you any wool?

Yes sir, yes sir,

Three bags full.

One for the master,

One for the dame,

And one for the little boy

Who lives down the lane

There are a few stories about where this song might have come from, including the idea that comes from the Medieval wool trade, but one of them is that it has to do with the Atlantic slave trade. Which is so messed up I can't even handle it.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,

How does your garden grow?

With silver bells, and cockle shells,

And pretty maids all in a row.

This song might seem like an innocent song about gardening, but there's a good chance it originated as a political metaphor for Mary I of England, the oldest daughter of Henry VIII who ascended to the throne after his death. Mary famously was unable to have a child, so the "How does your garden grow" line is probably a dig at that, and the "quite contrary" name is probably a reference to the way she tried to roll back her father's efforts to make the country Protestant.

The "silver bells and cockle shells" on the other hand are possibly a reference to different torture devices used on people who refused to convert back to Catholicism.

Ring around the rosie

A pocketful of posies

Ashes, ashes

We all fall down.

This one you may have already heard of: "Ring Around the Rosie" may well have started as song about the Black Death (though there are other theories, too). One of the signs of the disease was supposedly a red rash - or "rosie" - an people would keep herbs - or "posies" - in their pockets to try to ward off sickness. And I think "We all fall down" speaks for itself.

All around the Mulberry Bush,

The monkey chased the weasel.

The monkey stopped to pull up his sock,

Pop! goes the weasel.

The American version of this song seems like some humorous nonsense about monkeys and weasels, but the older, British versions of the song are a little different. In the British versions, there are lines like "A penny for a spool of thread, a penny for a needle" and "Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle." Which make more sense when you know that "Pop goes the weasel" used to be a slang term for pawning your coat. In that context, the song is actually not about animals chasing each other, but about people living on the edge of poverty having to pawn their winter coat in order to afford basic necessities.

Not nearly as cheerful for the kids.

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,

Kitty Fisher found it;

Not a penny was there in it,

Only ribbon round it.

There are multiple theories about this nursery rhyme, but one of them involves a decidedly not kid-friendly sex scandal. Kitty Fisher was actually the name of one of the most famous courtesans in 18th century London. the story goes that Lucy Locket, on the other hand, was supposedly a barmaid and the two fought over a man - possibly even King Charles II. Not the sort of thing you want your kids singing about.

Row, row, row your boat,

Gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,

Life is but a dream.

The lyrics to this song don't have any deep, unknown, disturbing meaning - at least not that anyone's confirmed - but the origins of this song are still pretty creepy. It probably began as part of American minstrel shows. And if those sound familiar, it's probably for their horrific, racist portrayals of Black people - they are also the origins of blackface, and the reason the practice is forever and unavoidably racist.

Lavender's blue, dilly, dilly, lavender's green

When I am king, dilly, dilly, You shall be queen

The current lyrics of this rhyme are pretty innocuous, but the older versions are way less wholesome. Not only do they imply that the singer is trying to sleep with their beloved - already kind of weird for unsuspecting kids to be singing - but it's also clear they are trying to pressure this person into sex. Lines like "You must love me, diddle, diddle/cause I love you," and "I heard one say, diddle, diddle/Since I came hither/That you and I, diddle, diddle/Must lie together" are not great.

So while the current lyrics are fine, the origins are still highly disturbing.

It's raining; it's pouring.

The old man is snoring.

He bumped his head on the top of the bed,

And couldn't get up in the morning.

Much like "Rock-a-bye Baby," this song is actually really dark when you think about it. It's basically about someone getting severe head trauma and possibly dying - and wouldn't you know it, there doesn't seem to be a hidden, deeper meaning to this one. It really is just about head trauma.

Here we go round the mulberry bush,

The mulberry bush,

The mulberry bush.

Here we go round the mulberry bush

On a cold and frosty morning.

The subsequent verses include things like "This is the way we brush our teeth" and "This is the way we put on our clothes," which caused one historian to theorize that the song was about a women's prison at HMP Wakefield. The prison had a mulberry bush in the courtyard, and historian RS Duncan thus suggested that the verses are about the routine the women go through each morning.

Not quite as silly and lighthearted as it seems, I guess.

Ladybird, ladybird fly away home,

Your house is on fire and your children are gone,

All except one,

And her name is Ann,

And she hid under the baking pan.

According to Bustle's JR Thorpe, "This one dates from at least 1744, according to the British Library, and we still don't know what exactly it's about. Some theories hold that it might be about Catholics being burned at the stake if they were caught saying Mass in anti-Protestant England." Or, it could also be interpreted as killing a ladybug is bad luck due to children's superstitions back in the day. Whichever it is, there is a sort of hidden eeriness behind the words.

Jack and Jill went up the hill

To fetch a pail of water.

Jack fell down and broke his crown,

And Jill came tumbling after.

The classic "Jack & Jill" rhyme dates back to 1765 and originated from France. Jack is actually King Louis XVI, and Jill, his Queen, Marie Antoinette. The King, Jack, was beheaded due to his failure to recognize France's financial problems, hence "Jack fell down, and broke his crown," and his Queen, Jill, was killed shortly after.

Who knew that nursery rhymes have so much hidden darkness?
Additional reporting by Siena Gagliano.

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