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murbard2 on March 31, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Quantum entanglement of a single particle has been...

4. "Howard Wiseman and his team demonstrated that this wave function collapse is a real effect."

No, they didn't. An alternate (and simpler) explanation being that the experimenter and the particle are entangled.

dedward on March 31, 2015 [–]

I very much like this avenue of thought, as a layperson.

I forget where I read it, fairly recently somewhere... but something along the lines of measurement == entanglement.

lisper on March 31, 2015 | [–]

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf

Or, the movie version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

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