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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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