First signs of spring here. Still cold. Laid in bed with Minnie the cat for extra warm time before I got up today. Meanwhile, someone else was figuring out that life on Earth was actually generated via quantum tunneling. I am therefore the laziest lazy bastard who ever lazed. Someone even built a Bell state analyser, which determines when quantum information is in its optimal condition of entanglement. This allows for quantum teleportation of information, which is freaky. On one level, this device is detecting things that aren’t technically “there.” JPL are readying to put a quantum communication system on the ISS, which will be “self-healing” – there’s a laser in the package that will burn away radiation damage.
A simple description of “time crystals,” a quantum system that illustrates just how weird quantum science is. The time crystal is a thing that should not happen but uses loopholes in classical physics to exist forever. As I noted the other day, I am not good at understanding this stuff, but what I can grasp of it tells me wonderful stories. For me, science and art have been entangled forever. The world is quantum poetry, and it buzzes and blooms with wonder.