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Quantum Entanglement Photography
Voodoo, witchcraft, alchemy and physics all do amazingly peculiar things. One of the mysteries presented by quantum physics is the property of photon entanglement. Usually, the principle is just demonstrated with two photons striking separate detectors where the first passes through a slit causing interference and the second exhibits the same interference without the slit. The Air Force has taken photon entanglement a step further by creating a "ghost image", essentially taking a picture with the second photon of something "seen" by the first photon. Right now, their demonstration only shows a photograph of a small soldier but the hopes is to eventually use the technology to use entanglement to export a photograph to location that cannot actually see the original object.
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Interference is evidence of waves?
The experiment described reminds me of one from my student days demonstrating the particle/wave duality of light. Then we talked in terms of wave interference patterns rather than photon entanglement.
Perhaps these guys are wave theory denialists trying to explain it all in terms of photons as particles.
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WTF!?? by NomadSoul :: NR6 :: Show
Now, this is about the strangest thing I've heard of in a while... It reminds me of a book I read called A Voyage to Arcturus where the characters travel to a distant world using something called "back light." Back light is like regular light, except it travels toward its source rather than away from it--and it can be stored in bottles.
Back light is little more than a philosophical exercise; but it seems a lot less far fetched now that you can actually take a picture of something by looking at the light source instead of the object.