Scientists Just Broke a Quantum Record; What Happens Next?

Scientists managed to quantum entangle trillions of atoms – here's how.

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Stabilized entanglement of massive mechanical oscillators
“Entanglement has a solid theoretical and experimental foundation and is the key resource behind many emerging quantum technologies, including quantum computation, cryptography and metrology”

Entanglement "on demand" sets the stage for quantum internet
“Researchers at Delft University of Technology have now overcome a major hurdle on the road towards that goal by generating quantum links faster than they deteriorate.”

Entangled atoms shine in unison
“The deliberate entanglement of these quantum particles not only opens up the possibility of building a quantum computer, but also creates the basis for the measurement of physical properties with previously unknown precision.”

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[Master_Therion]

One day Schrödinger put his cat in a box to carry it to the vet. "My cat is sick, will he be okay?" The vet just looked at him and said, "I have good news and I have bad news."

[mr.personhumanson]

I'm a Schrodinger person,
I'm alive but dead inside.

[cup_check_official]

Q: What's the difference between a quantum mechanic and an auto mechanic?






A: A quantum mechanic can get his car into the garage without opening the door

[sebastianelytron]

More Seeker clickbait BS. "What happens next?" "We'll have to wait and see." And the quantum "record" was touched on for 5 seconds. No wonder I find it hard to get excited over Seeker videos.

[daveb]

How about instead of talking about entangled ice skates and other pop culture references they explain more advanced science? Like how macroscopic objects became entangled when as far as we know you can't have macroscopic entanglement because you are starting to deal with different statistics? This three minute video is more like a main stream head line then news. What role does the super conductor play in changing the physics it follows? How do they entangle such things that are so far apart? What other properties can you entangle things besides their spin?

[wendten]

Why not tell more about how they managed to entangle those particles instead of focusing on elementary theory that can be read in the first line of multiple wikipedia articles?

[FluffyFluffles]

That's the first Clone High reference I've heard in about 12 years. Thank you. I quote it all the time and no one ever has any idea what I'm talking about.

[Bill_Bo]

"They can be considered to be entangled." Ok. Can you explain that better? Why is it considered that way? Can you elaborate on how that allows to make sensitive detectors? (of?)

[JonathanS]

Julian's twitter photo riding a stuffed animal with motorcycle clothing and helmet gives me life! lol

[robinwang]

Is it possible to isolated a marco object, and energize it, so it would exhibit uncertainty principle? (Define momentum to teleport?)

[whatsappstatusforyou]

One Day I will definitely become A Top Class Scientist

[innocentqwa]

If you can have two minuscule objects be quantum entangled so that what effects one effects the other... Can we use this for instant communications over great distances or am I misunderstanding something?

[Gotlyfe]

The beginning of the video was great, very descriptive and accurate. The Analogies in the later half only further the misconceptions about quantum entanglement.

[conorhealy]

What exactly are they they basing their assumption on when it comes to saying that these two discs are in entangled? Like how would they differentiate between the two of them being synced up extremely well (or moving in unison) and them being quantum mechanically entangled at each atom within them? Is there a test?

[mattmooney]

I just want to say your presentation skills have really improved lately.

[cup_check_official]

Perfect selection of the background music. Makes it feel like a mystery

[jaimitoelpoderoso]

I just want to point out that for some reason Mr. Dominguez and yourself (Julian) have a way of keeping my attention through the entire videos ya'l make. It turn, I am able to understand and retain most of the information you provide. It's the way explain things that are difficult to....hhmmm, explain!... Or I should say, Yal bring quantum mechanics down (..or up?) to the macro level of understanding. sentence, but seems about right in the realm of the quantum. Greta jobs guys!

[primusro]

How is this entanglement achieved and can we mainatain it for long durations? Because if this is true then we can use it for instant conunication over stelar scale distances.

[jameshasseriousedoubtsabou]

if we can entangle something so big couldn't we use it for pretty much instantaneous communication.
you just need something that can pick up the vibrations of the discy things.
can we do this or can someone tell me why we cant

[carlosantuckwell]

"Quantum weirdness" is based on the "double-slit experiment". Veritasium has an excellent video showing an analogous natural...'mechanism' that explains the double-slit experiment results without recourse to wave/particle duality and "quantum weirdness". "Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?" is the name of the Veritasium video, which is on YouTube.