"The experiment can be further extended to a larger scale using photons from distant stars and open a new route to quantum optics experiments at an astronomical scale."
This would be interesting as a distant star would exhibit red-shift unlike something as close as our sun. So until further data such as this, we just have the single experiment. Which from my limited understanding, would give the data to draw some solid conclusions. Exciting stuff, and I could only speculate upon the results, though somebody more up upon the matter may well have some better insights.
Though it may well be a way to measure distances more accurately would be my limited take away from this. Maybe not, but certainly something going on here that will enhance our understanding of physics on all levels.
Yeah, I'm really waiting for some of the physics experts on HN to give their take on this. I have a limited understanding of the basic idea behind entanglement, but I can't extend it to this case.
I gather this experiment somehow entangles photons from the sun with photons produced by the experimenters, but they're already here when that happens right? So how does the distance come into play. I think I'm probably looking at it too "classically".
I have a limited understanding, but I think this is just further reproduction of the same science. I believe there's some controversy over non-locality in that entanglement and spooky action at a distance is still a result of hidden local variables. By increasing the distance between the sources of the photons, you would give more evidence to nonlocality. Please correct me if this is offbase.
Imagine entangled data transmission... having a matrix of entangled particles, using known truths to illuminate what has up until now have been unknowable things.
Wow, it’s an amazing time to be alive.
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This would be interesting as a distant star would exhibit red-shift unlike something as close as our sun. So until further data such as this, we just have the single experiment. Which from my limited understanding, would give the data to draw some solid conclusions. Exciting stuff, and I could only speculate upon the results, though somebody more up upon the matter may well have some better insights.
Though it may well be a way to measure distances more accurately would be my limited take away from this. Maybe not, but certainly something going on here that will enhance our understanding of physics on all levels.
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I gather this experiment somehow entangles photons from the sun with photons produced by the experimenters, but they're already here when that happens right? So how does the distance come into play. I think I'm probably looking at it too "classically".
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