[HN Gopher] Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a ta...
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Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade
Author : caymanjim
Score : 49 points
Date : 2021-12-16 17:15 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
| akomtu wrote:
| The future of quantum computers: scientists watch how a few
| tardigrades navigate a labyrinth, make notes in complete silence
| and with a straight face expression update the chalkboard filled
| with GR/QM equations.
| [deleted]
| _joel wrote:
| Does this mean the spore drive is on it's way :)
| otikik wrote:
| They should have put Paul Stamets in the references at least.
| zepto wrote:
| Obviously quantum entanglement is how the tardigrade remains
| connected to the subspace mycelial network. I'm surprised they
| don't mention this.
| ggfgg wrote:
| Please don't give me flashbacks to that horse crap.
| lawrenceyan wrote:
| The dream of a quantum bear has been realized.
| selimthegrim wrote:
| As Jeff Kimble used to say, it's the dreams stuff is made of.
| jhgb wrote:
| "Consider a spherical tardigrade in vacuum..."
| dash2 wrote:
| Is it like Schrodinger's Tardigrade?
| ajb wrote:
| Not unless they kill it conditionally on the value of a qubit.
| But in fact they 'merely' affected some charges on the
| tardigrade. Its living/dead status was not entangled.
| TheOtherHobbes wrote:
| Although with tardigrades, it's not as if anyone can tell.
|
| I hope this is not the beginning of quantum tardigrade
| computing. (Because that has Netflix Original all over it.)
| thehappypm wrote:
| Is this parody?
| mikewarot wrote:
| I'm not sure what the practical outcome of this will be, but the
| quantum woo community is going to have a field day with it. Ugh!
| colordrops wrote:
| What does that even mean? The term "woo" is so condescending
| and useless.
| dogma1138 wrote:
| I guess they mean the "What the bleep do we know?" and CCC
| (not chaos computer club) crowd
| zwkrt wrote:
| Well what's condescending and useless is the crowd of people
| that, in absence of any understanding or genuine interest in
| the subject, use words and phrases from quantum mechanics to
| enforce their beliefs or sell snake oil to others. I can see
| the books and blog posts and motivational videos now:
|
| "Entangle yourself to your successful universe"
|
| "Science proves life is quantum"
|
| "What entanglement to life proves about our spiritual path"
|
| "
| colordrops wrote:
| All ideas have more or less merit. Address them
| individually based on their grounding in facts and evidence
| rather than a priori bucketing an arbitrary subset of ideas
| with a label. It's no different than calling people
| "libtards". You mention "woo" with annoyance before anyone
| even said anything, indicating a strong bias.
| zwkrt wrote:
| Look, it's just a convenient term for working scientists
| to use to categorize a group of people who are not worth
| listening to at all (in the scientific realm). Quantum
| physics gets a lot of this because it's spooky but all
| fields experience some amount of quackery. Think people
| who send P=NP proofs to universities, "alternate"
| historians, flat earthers, and the like.
|
| Imagine if there were coding boot camps that were
| entirely based on developing a good vibe with the
| computer, and didn't involve learning about how to write
| code at all. People go in, "learn" something, but then
| they try to get a coding job and fall flat on their face
| because they don't actually know anything. This is
| exactly the state of quantum physics re: the general
| public. I would guess as a scientist it would get
| demoralizing.
| varelse wrote:
| Nah. Ridicule them ruthlessly and bring back the shame to
| being an idiot. One idiot's quantum entanglement with a
| tardigrade is another idiot's claim that antifa created
| the tornadoes that devastated Kentucky. Can't they see
| how much they have in common with each other?
| lisper wrote:
| You pretty much nailed it: "woo" is something that is so
| useless as to be worthy of condescension when it is presented
| otherwise (which woo invariably is).
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| Demand operationalization of "woo"! Otherwise, it's just
| another form of self satisfied group think
| roywiggins wrote:
| Quantum woo is just standard woo (a constellation of
| beliefs in things like "energy healing", "crystals", "law
| of attraction") dressed up with "quantum" words ( _quantum_
| healing, _quantum_ crystals). It 's just as silly with or
| without the quantum stuff.
|
| In previous eras it was magnetism, or radio, or "mesmeric
| waves" or whatever. It's the same stuff dressed up in
| whatever the modern cutting edge science words are.
| jkhdigital wrote:
| > The animal is then observed to return to its active form after
| 420 hours at sub 10 mK temperatures and pressure of 6x10^-6 mbar,
| setting a new record for the conditions that a complex form of
| life can survive.
|
| !!!
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| Blaze it
| quadcore wrote:
| I think we should throw a tardigrade at a black hole
| ortusdux wrote:
| We've already bombarded the moon with them...
|
| https://www.wired.com/story/a-crashed-israeli-lunar-
| lander-s...
| dogma1138 wrote:
| Do you want cthulhu?
| varelse wrote:
| I want cthulhu. Don't let the pandemic ruin your sense of
| fun.
| [deleted]
| pjs_ wrote:
| Incredible. They paused his ass
| account-5 wrote:
| There's a joke here somewhere about entangling an NTF to the
| thing it's meant to convey ownership of, and thereby negating all
| criticism of NFTs... Maybe not
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