Scientists photograph 'spooky' quantum entanglement for the first time
Well, this is interesting. Physics seems to be well grounded, even though Einstein thought it "spooky"
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If you haven't watched the "transporter psychosis" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, you should.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX8aI...
(reference quantum entanglements observed)
If you like Sci Fi, good, well written series. also on audio book.
Basically, spaceflight has spread and there are several polities out, and they end up in a war, where the Terran Hegemony wants to unite all men under their control, and the Castle federation stands against them. The quantum communications ends up being a key to winning the war.
Second, quantum physics is probabalistic, in that, no single particles are involved in wave patterns. No single particle has ever been shown to have wave properties, just as no particle has the wave property shown in wavy things such as water waves, acoustic waves, etc. All waves are composite effects of many particles. When it is not possible to have measurements of single particles in an ensemble, it is necessary to use sampling and probability methods.
Third, never try to reify concepts. They exist only in minds and cannot exists as objects. Reification usually ends in creating metaphors and thus no idea about objective reality. I.e., do not write about 'nature doing...', 'nature trying...', 'mother nature', 'molecules try to do...', 'evolution does... (evolution is not some kind of existing force and cannot be a cause), etc. Just clear out the metaphor and learn that a subset of mathematics is a mental tool for describing objective reality. Nearly all mathematics has nothing to do with objective reality and is not as Roger Penrose believes to be some kind of an existing reality of mathematica reality of existing ideals.
Forth, The speed of light is a limiting speed for matter an cannot be increased except in metaphor. Since photons have energy, they have an effective mass which increases with greater energy and can be consider as not having the not traveling at speed of light, c, and as energies of photons increase, they increase velocities closer and closer to the limiting speed c. It would take infinite energy to reach c as with any other mass. (That was proposed by the late Lazar Myants in 'The Enigma of Probability and Physics' and may not have been tested yet.)
All understanding of objective reality depends upon a frame of reference for measurement all measurements are relative to chosen standard units and depend upon the context of the measurement. For example, measurements of the rate of passage of time with clocks depends upon the context, relative motion between clocks, local force of gravity, etc. Just climbing onto a chair will change the rate of a clock compared to a clock on the floor. That has been measured. The change in clock rates in airplanes has been measured also. Albeit, those rates are in the nanosecond range and only become more measurable with velocities a good fraction of that of light and with very strong gravitational fields.
Quantum physics, which deals with actual measurements of objective reality, should not be confused with quantum mechanics. The interpretations of quantum mechanics very from dealing with objective reality (existing objects) to the complete discarding of an objective reality for some kind of each observation creating an existing thing as long as one is observing it, removing observation causes it to no longer exist.
That reference to Lazar Myants is to his proposed electromagnetic particle which which he named Emon which has real mass depending upon the energy of the Emon.