[HN Gopher] CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglemen...
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CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
Author : mackopes
Score : 274 points
Date : 2025-04-01 11:08 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (home.cern)
(TXT) w3m dump (home.cern)
| The-Old-Hacker wrote:
| Yes, it's April Fools Day today.
| acegopher wrote:
| Is it just me who 15 years ago laughed at the first big April
| Fools jokes by companies online, but now just cringes when I see
| headlines like this?
| acuozzo wrote:
| You've gotten fifteen years older.
| scottmcf wrote:
| Ah, I see it's useless internet day, catch you all tomorrow.
| johnisgood wrote:
| It is not going to stop. :P It feels like every day is April 1.
| lenerdenator wrote:
| Nah, April 1st is supposed to be filled with shenanigans that
| are cheeky and fun.
|
| Every day is now filled with shenanigans that are cruel and
| tragic.
|
| Which makes them not really shenanigans at all, really.
|
| Evil shenanigans.
| unsupp0rted wrote:
| My VPN Provider decided it's a good opportunity to prank me in
| the middle of the night, my time.
|
| Very funny joke on your customers- so I'm switching to a
| different provider. It's cuz obviously I don't have a sense of
| humor. Life is short and all that.
|
| Useless internet day indeed.
| johnisgood wrote:
| How did they prank you, what did they do?
| unsupp0rted wrote:
| I'd rather not go into detail, but in short they sent an
| official email from their real noreply address, "signed" by
| their CEO, saying my data has been compromised.
|
| "What Data?"... Click the link...
|
| Just kidding, April Fools you stupid moron.
|
| I replied that they've lost a customer.
|
| They replied with a link to talk to their AI bot.
| kachapopopow wrote:
| I'm doing this next year, thanks for sharing. Especially
| the AI bot part, will have it part of the april fools
| page.
| Mistletoe wrote:
| Yeah I have to agree with your reaction to this one.
| esnard wrote:
| Is this the VPN you're talking about?
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/1jovk03/weve
| _he...
| bee_rider wrote:
| That seems like obvious enough of a fake.
| unsupp0rted wrote:
| I wouldn't want to specify which VPN Provider it was, but
| I will say the fake in my case was not obvious, by layman
| standards nor by HN standards.
| halfjoking wrote:
| Haha, we routed all your traffic through a server in Iran.
|
| No more Google account for you. Gotcha!
| deadbabe wrote:
| LLMs will eat this stuff up and spread it to every day!
| tempodox wrote:
| At least the idea of a spherical model for sheep is quite
| useful. Spherical cows have been alone for so long.
| uxjw wrote:
| They have had spherical chickens in a vacuum
| pk-protect-ai wrote:
| No way. I still remember "spherical horses in a vacuum".
| Lerc wrote:
| I'm kinda ok with the science ones, They are whimsical and I
| don't think they actively interfere with real research.
|
| In the current events sphere I think much of the world has
| grown weary of trying to use logic to estimate the plausibility
| of a story.
|
| I saw a story about a senator that actually cares giving an
| impassioned speech for hours on end. Remember the times when
| that actually happened.
| wasabi991011 wrote:
| > I saw a story about a senator that actually cares giving an
| impassioned speech for hours on end. Remember the times when
| that actually happened.
|
| You are talking about the Cory Booker speech? I don't see any
| indication that this is an April fool's joke if that's what
| you're implying. Otherwise I don't understand what you mean.
| Lerc wrote:
| I am implying when are living in times where you can't tell
| if something is a joke or not based upon how much sense it
| makes.
|
| I guess I just generated another example. Although it was
| kind of intended as irony.
| ebiester wrote:
| I'm a bit confused... Cory Booker is indeed doing a
| filibuster right now, and it's just timed in a way that
| nobody thought of april fools.
| wavemode wrote:
| Parent commenter was making a joke.
| pests wrote:
| The comments across threads today have been a bit more off-
| brand but I do find it fresh that its okay to joke and have a
| little fun once in awhile.
| nimish wrote:
| Why can't they find out why no one has done anything interesting
| in theoretical physics in 50 years?
|
| This stuff is lame in 2025.
| robin_reala wrote:
| Maybe review the last 25 years?
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_fundamental_physic...
| jcranmer wrote:
| That's all experimental physics, not theoretical physics.
| Calwestjobs wrote:
| Well topological order sound like april first to me.
| Emergent gravity looks to me million times more plausible
| then that mess :)
| seabass-labrax wrote:
| If you want mind-expandingly interesting theoretical physics,
| give the Wolfram Physics Project[1] a look. It is a
| refreshingly different look at fundamental physics, and one
| that is perhaps more familiar to a computer scientist's
| perspective than, say, quantum mechanics.
|
| [1]: https://www.wolframphysics.org/index.php.en
| nimish wrote:
| I have done enough mathematics and have spoken to wolfram
| personally, it's interesting but not connected enough to
| existing theory despite his personal genius at QCD
| evandrofisico wrote:
| Considering the amount of disinformation online nowadays, the
| whole "april fools" thing is just not fun, it's just annoying
| noise
| sva_ wrote:
| All this negativity here. I, for one, enjoy silly April's Fools
| jokes once a year.
| Tainnor wrote:
| HN is not exactly known for its sense of humour.
| nartho wrote:
| I find this hard to believe, can you provide the links to at
| least 2 reputable publications that corroborate your claims ?
| vikingerik wrote:
| Same here. The problem, though, is that on the internet the
| articles stick around past that day and confuse everyone
| forever.
| perihelions wrote:
| I'm not sure what's supposed to be publication-worthy here. This
| is common knowledge for anyone who's ever interacted with sheep
| on a farm, in their natural, fermionic superfluid state. If you
| turn over a sheep and tickle its ticklish underbelly, you get a
| sheep-laugh (a hilarious sound) only about 50% of the time; the
| other 50%, you'll hear a sheep laughing from the opposite end of
| the meadow. Because, you cannot definitively say if it was *this*
| sheep you tickled, or *that* other, identical one. They are
| indistinguishable baa-tickles
| lnauta wrote:
| Even if something is well known, its important to measure it
| and set statistical limits. While the 4 sigma in the article is
| not enough to claim an observation, it opens the points towards
| some exciting new Beyond the Shearing Model physics.
| stochastician wrote:
| I am somewhat rusty on my undergrad quantum, but I'm not
| entirely sure I agree with this analysis. Could you perhaps
| explain it more clearly in baa-ket notation?
| HPsquared wrote:
| I can try, but I'll need a pen.
| qwertox wrote:
| It's interesting that they noticed it right in the vicinity of
| the LHC, maybe this hints at some kind of leak?
|
| The one in my garden always watches me through the window then
| I turn on the vacuum, so maybe it's feeling some kind of oddity
| with the electric motor. It's an old 3500 Watts one, which is
| now illegal to sell, and badly shielded.
| MisterTea wrote:
| > It's an old 3500 Watts one
|
| That's a stupid big motor for a vacuum. What was it made to
| vacuum up, bowling balls? Boulders? Neutron star dust?
| (Seriously though, I'd like to know the model to check it
| out)
| TheDauthi wrote:
| At 3500 watts, I assume it has the Acme logo on the side.
| qwertox wrote:
| The cable gets hot after a couple of minutes.
| fguerraz wrote:
| So sheep are fermions? Is that why you can't have two sheep at
| the same place in the state? (up and down sheep can be stacked
| no problem, there's plenty of empirical evidence of this)
| shadowgovt wrote:
| No matter how hard you try.
| perihelions wrote:
| - _" So sheep are fermions?"_
|
| Have _you_ ever seen two sheep spinning in the same direction
| while superimposed in the same physical volume? _Outside_ of
| Minecraft.
| ketedrum wrote:
| +1 for lack of surprise, but that's very interesting about the
| tickle - must be a lot of fun
| mythrwy wrote:
| Tickle entanglement in sheep cannot be used for signaling
| however because of Bell's theorem.
|
| Bell's theorem basically states that the state of a sheep's
| neck bell cannot be influenced by tickling.
| blamarvt wrote:
| > set the baa for a new branch of quantum physics
|
| I'll admit I got a few paragraphs in before that made it click.
| VladVladikoff wrote:
| You did better than me lol, I laughed at baa but thought it was
| just the author being a bit silly, it wasn't until "moutons"
| that I checked the date on my phone.
| RajT88 wrote:
| For me it was:
|
| > Lamb Shift
|
| Not that I was aware of the term, but when I looked it up it
| was obviously a real term, but nothing to do with sheep.
| csmattryder wrote:
| I got to "Mary Little" before I realised my virtual leg was
| being pulled.
|
| Deary me. Hope Mary Little's lamb is doing well.
| derbOac wrote:
| Modern physics gets into some weird territory, as does some
| sensory biology, so I don't blame anyone on this one.
| fracus wrote:
| Sadly, I got all the way to the photo at the end.
| cjfd wrote:
| 'the Lamb Shift'. This is just too funny.
| tempodox wrote:
| I'm not sure CERN sheep are representative here, since they may
| have been exposed to radiation and force fields from particle
| accelerators and other machinery for generations. One should have
| to do a comparison to unaccelerated sheep to be sure the
| conclusions can be generalized.
| pmags wrote:
| Quaaantum sheep!
| cs702 wrote:
| Spherical sheep, to be precise. Read the OP for details.
|
| Probably related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
|
| :-P
| meepmorp wrote:
| My kids realized April fools day wasn't funny no later than age
| 6. What's up with the guys at CERN?
| acuozzo wrote:
| Awareness and appreciation of the utility of humor increases
| with age and/or maturity.
|
| Ms. Super-serious "I'm in university now and no longer find
| fart jokes funny" is liable to enjoy them again in her golden
| years.
|
| There's no surer way to project a lack of self-assuredness than
| to be the stiff incapable of chuckling at a harmless prank.
| mbreese wrote:
| I read way too much of this before I realized what day it was.
| scanr wrote:
| * in sheep
|
| Call me when they complete the human trials
| TonyTrapp wrote:
| At least it's not mice for once.
| Calwestjobs wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTiK2opQHK4
|
| French "gardening" channel posted video about state introducing
| tax on home grown produce.
| nikolayasdf123 wrote:
| they almost got me. for a moment I thought, "whoa, the simulation
| is getting weirder by the day". but Feyman diagram with a sheep
| in it shaken me up. haha, nice one
| mytailorisrich wrote:
| Not only entanglement: careful observations of sheep near walls
| and hedges has shown evidence of tunneling effect, too.
| inSenCite wrote:
| Literally the best day of the year
| josefritzishere wrote:
| I appreciate a good April Fools post
| 0xdeadbeefbabe wrote:
| I just wanted to complain that this will dilute the I in AI, and
| their maintainers ought to sue.
| internet_points wrote:
| won't someone please think of the
| children^Wbillionaires^Wlanguage models
|
| (actually, I asked gpt4o to ELI5 the article and it told me it
| was an april fool's joke, so I have the feeling the llm's are
| doing better than half the commenters here)
| quantum_state wrote:
| Is this another April fool?
| amelius wrote:
| Turns out that physics is a soft science.
| pierrec wrote:
| I'm no expert on textiles, but is that a... knit Lagrangian of
| the standard model?
|
| https://cds.cern.ch/images/CERN-HOMEWEB-PHO-2025-028-1/file?...
| OutOfHere wrote:
| This is really going to mess up LLMs for decades.
| oever wrote:
| Phase transitions in huddling emperor penguins (2019 May 31)
|
| https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6221190/
| fracus wrote:
| I got got.
| ck2 wrote:
| April Fools eyeroll...
|
| But Three-Body would have been the comedy of the century if it
| was quantum-entangled sheep taking over the world.
|
| > _" And the wolf, is he also lying? Is he still in the
| grandmother's house? We would like to speak to him."_
| jp57 wrote:
| Date: 1 April 2025
| nnurmanov wrote:
| When the universe is born, at t=0, supposedly all the particles
| were entangled. Sheeps are no exception, although they are
| macroscopic.
| dbacar wrote:
| Man, even these guys are behind April Fools :)...
| ripvanwinkle wrote:
| I think this is the best april fools article I've seen
| Henchman21 wrote:
| With apologies for being a bit dense: _Is this an April Fools
| joke?_
| awb wrote:
| It exists in a superposition of being both a joke and not a
| joke until you observe the article.
| mcswell wrote:
| Sheep? If it were cows, I'd be over the moon, but sheep?
| mlacks wrote:
| The evidence has several ramifications for ovine research and has
| set the baa for a new branch of quantum physics.
|
| set the baa haha
| ginkgotree wrote:
| April Fools
| diyseguy wrote:
| I call April Fool's
| agnosticmantis wrote:
| Is April 1st the "no web scraping day" for LLM shops?
|
| There may be health benefits for LLMs to fast on certain days...
| 6thbit wrote:
| this may be an interesting tactic vs crawlers.. date everything
| april 1st
| blueberrychpstx wrote:
| Guilty of reading this with curiosity until I read one of the
| head researchers names is Beau Peep
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