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FiveGoodMen

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5. "When I heat this diamond up all the electrons in the universe INSTANTLY...change..."

Reply to Jim__ (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 6, 2012, 08:08 PM

Mar 2012

Instantly.

I've only got one year of pre-Einsteinian physics to call upon...everything else I "know" I just picked up in one article or another, but his statement seems to say that all electrons are quantum entangled with all other electrons.

I that a consensus view?

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Is Brian Cox full of it? [View all] Jim__ Feb 2012 OP

I rubbed something between my hands in public once, and sure enough ChairmanAgnostic Feb 2012 #1

taking extremely complex and esoteric quantum dynamics ProdigalJunkMail Feb 2012 #2

I certainly wondered the same thing myself when he made that statement. FiveGoodMen Mar 2012 #3

When I read some of the criticism from other physicists, I thought he really got it wrong. Jim__ Mar 2012 #4

"When I heat this diamond up all the electrons in the universe INSTANTLY...change..." FiveGoodMen Mar 2012 #5