CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep

Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by perihelions on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @09:40AM (#43546675)

I'm not sure what's supposed to be publication-worthy here. This is common knowledge for anyone who's ever interacted with sheep on a farm, in their natural, fermionic superfluid state. If you turn over a sheep and tickle its ticklish underbelly, you get a sheep-laugh (a hilarious sound) only about 50% of the time; the other 50%, you'll hear a sheep laughing from the opposite end of the meadow. Because, you cannot definitively say if it was *this* sheep you tickled, or *that* other, identical one. They are indistinguishable baa-tickles

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by stochastician on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @10:30AM (#43547225)

I am somewhat rusty on my undergrad quantum, but I'm not entirely sure I agree with this analysis. Could you perhaps explain it more clearly in baa-ket notation?

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by HPsquared on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @11:12AM (#43547750)

I can try, but I'll need a pen.

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by ALLTaken on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @07:30PM (#43552379)

Wish I had neighbors as hilarious as you or op =)

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by lnauta on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @10:02AM (#43546921)

Even if something is well known, its important to measure it and set statistical limits. While the 4 sigma in the article is not enough to claim an observation, it opens the points towards some exciting new Beyond the Shearing Model physics.

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by qwertox on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @10:47AM (#43547430)

It's interesting that they noticed it right in the vicinity of the LHC, maybe this hints at some kind of leak?

The one in my garden always watches me through the window then I turn on the vacuum, so maybe it's feeling some kind of oddity with the electric motor. It's an old 3500 Watts one, which is now illegal to sell, and badly shielded.

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by MisterTea on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @11:10AM (#43547727)

> It's an old 3500 Watts one

That's a stupid big motor for a vacuum. What was it made to vacuum up, bowling balls? Boulders? Neutron star dust? (Seriously though, I'd like to know the model to check it out)

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by TheDauthi on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @12:49PM (#43548936)

At 3500 watts, I assume it has the Acme logo on the side.

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by qwertox on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @01:45PM (#43549590)

The cable gets hot after a couple of minutes.

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by FirmwareBurner on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:13AM (#43557596)

RTX 5090?

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by quickthrowman on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @07:27PM (#43552362)

You have a 5 horsepower vacuum? That’s impressive.

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by fguerraz on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @10:52AM (#43547500)

So sheep are fermions? Is that why you can't have two sheep at the same place in the state? (up and down sheep can be stacked no problem, there's plenty of empirical evidence of this)

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by shadowgovt on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @01:02PM (#43549093)

No matter how hard you try.

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by perihelions on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @01:34PM (#43549482)

- "So sheep are fermions?"

Have you ever seen two sheep spinning in the same direction while superimposed in the same physical volume? Outside of Minecraft.

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by nicerob2010 on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @09:25PM (#43552912)

Yes, but only after a few shrooms and a lot of tequila

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by krowfromthewall on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @08:30AM (#43555913)

are the shrooms and tequila consumed by you or the sheep?

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by nicerob2010 on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @10:56AM (#43557407)

Yes...

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:36AM (#43557894)

By nature, sheep are baazons. They act like fermions in an applied field.

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by ketedrum on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @01:07PM (#43549149)

+1 for lack of surprise, but that's very interesting about the tickle - must be a lot of fun

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Re:CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in ... by mythrwy on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @04:01PM (#43550764)

Tickle entanglement in sheep cannot be used for signaling however because of Bell's theorem.

Bell's theorem basically states that the state of a sheep's neck bell cannot be influenced by tickling.

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