As with many things quantum, the true implications of entanglement are far subtler than they at first appear.
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"Now that we, the field, can actually start creating these states, we can start thinking more seriously about the implications" for quantum communication, says quantum physicist Paul Kwiat of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The class of QL-implications is the generalization for fuzzy logic of the implications of quantum logic which raised from the Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann conclusion that "propositional calculus of quantum mechanics has the same structure as an abstract projective geometry".
Don Page, of the University of Alberta, is one of a small band of researchers who are still trying to understand the more philosophical implications of quantum mechanical mathematics.
Heisenberg was working through the implications of quantum theory, a strange new way of explaining how atoms behaved that had been developed by physicists, including Niels Bohr, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger, over the previous decade.
Bernard d'Espagnat, 87, a French physicist and philosopher of science, has won the $1.4 million Templeton Prize for his work on the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics, the John Templeton Foundation said Monday in Paris.
Quantum magic and its implications for the universe and the life within it are a running theme of this year's festival, five days in all, which will continue through Sunday, June 3.
Even Einstein, who felt at ease with the idea of wormholes through time, was so bothered by the whole business that, in 1935, he co-authored a paper titled "Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?" He pointed out some of quantum mechanics's strange implications, and then answered his question, essentially, in the negative.
Appalled by the weird implications of quantum mechanics, the rules that explain the workings of the tiny particles that make up the universe, Albert Einstein used to stroll the streets of Princeton wondering why the moon wasn't smeared all over the sky.
