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A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. Andrew Cleland at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his team cooled a tiny metal paddle until it reached its quantum mechanical 'ground state' — the lowest-energy state permitted by quantum mechanics. They then used the weird rules of quantum mechanics to simultaneously set the paddle moving while leaving it standing still. The experiment shows that the principles of quantum mechanics can apply to everyday objects as well as as atomic-scale particles.According to quantum theory, particles act as waves rather than point masses on very small scales. This has dozens of bizarre consequences: it is impossible to know a particle's exact position and velocity through space, yet it is possible for the same particle to be doing two contradictory things simultaneously. Through a phenomenon known as 'superposition' a particle can be moving and stationary at the same time — at least until an outside force acts on it. Then it instantly chooses one of the two contradictory positions.
The confused, dizzy feeling or the quantum mechanics?
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100317/full/news.2010.130.html
Or, you know, it's all a bunch of horse manure that they're foisting upon us to justify the obscene amounts of cash they're spending on this stuff.
does this mean I can write a SciFi story about a ship that can blink out of space in one place and into another solar system while they are also somewhere else at the same time?Explore the galaxy without leaving the Sol system?
The man makes a valid point.