| As above so below– (The Emerald Tablet)
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| Once upon a time |
| there were two quantum states |
| |Alice> and |Bob> |
| born into a family |
| coaxed by coherence into sameness. |
| Entangled in oneness, so that |
| knowing one you knew them all.
|
| But |Alice> and |Bob> were twins |
| born with instructions to conserve a zero |
| so that if |Alice> was made to spin one way, |
| |Bob> would spin in the opposite way. |
| And vice versa. |
| Entangled |
| Coherent and |
| Correlated.
|
| The physicists that played with |Alice>’s spin |
| observed to their surprise and chagrin |
| that |Bob>’s spin instantly became opposite |
| no matter how far away he was from his twin- |
| maybe, even, on the other side of the galaxy. |
| By the laws of special relativity, |
| this is impossible – it just should not be. |
| It seems these playful people have uncovered a |
| quantum mystery.
|
| You see, in our world of ordinary matter and energy |
| nothing can move faster than the speed of light |
| not even information. |
| A solution to this mystery might be that |
| |Alice> and |Bob> exist not only in our world, |
| but are also somehow present |
| in a virtual world |
| where information can travel at a |
| speed of infinity.
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| There is such a world in the basement of our spacetime: |
| The rabbit hole of the vacuum, the world of zeroes, |
| the world of unity, where there is |
| no causality.
|
| The playful people have seen that as either of the twins |
| get more involved with our ordinary world |
| (and less with the virtual world?) |
| they lose track of each other: they decohere. |
| They become free from their obligation to unity |
| and become completely |
| Uncorrelated, |
| Unentangled and |
| Incoherent.
|
| Isn’t physics fun?
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This poem was first published on June 10, 2011, on my webpage http://rogerhillonline.com/Waypoints.aspx
Co-inherence 