Oct 21, 2026 04:45 PM
Finally an empirical demonstration of the objective distinction between an object's noumenality and its phenomenality. Kant must be dancing a jig now!
"Think of a physical object. An apple, for example. Now imagine taking the red color off the apple, sending the apple down one hallway, and sending the redness down another. That is essentially what quantum physicists just did with a photon. It is called the Quantum Cheshire Cat effect. In Alice in Wonderland, the cat vanishes and leaves only its grin behind. In a controlled laboratory setting, researchers managed to send a particle down one path while sending its physical property—like its spin or polarization—down an entirely different route. Classical physics assumes an object and its traits are perfectly fused. A ball cannot separate from its roundness. But at the subatomic level, that rule breaks. By operating incredibly precise quantum detectors, researchers proved they could manipulate a particle separately from its own attributes without disturbing the overall system. If an object does not actually need to carry its own properties, the methods we use to encode and transmit data for quantum computing just changed completely."---"Evolved Chimp" Facebook
"Think of a physical object. An apple, for example. Now imagine taking the red color off the apple, sending the apple down one hallway, and sending the redness down another. That is essentially what quantum physicists just did with a photon. It is called the Quantum Cheshire Cat effect. In Alice in Wonderland, the cat vanishes and leaves only its grin behind. In a controlled laboratory setting, researchers managed to send a particle down one path while sending its physical property—like its spin or polarization—down an entirely different route. Classical physics assumes an object and its traits are perfectly fused. A ball cannot separate from its roundness. But at the subatomic level, that rule breaks. By operating incredibly precise quantum detectors, researchers proved they could manipulate a particle separately from its own attributes without disturbing the overall system. If an object does not actually need to carry its own properties, the methods we use to encode and transmit data for quantum computing just changed completely."---"Evolved Chimp" Facebook