Tópico: O emaranhamento quântico... do amor.

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[...] After running 36 couples through this test, the researchers found that when one person focused his thoughts on his partner, the partner's blood flow and perspiration dramatically changed within two seconds. The odds of this happening by chance were 1 in 11,000. Three dozen double blind, randomized studies by such institutions as the University of Washington and the University of Edinburgh have reported similar results.

The 'Quantum Entanglement' Of Love

So how do you explain this? No one really knows. But Radin and a few others think that a theory known as "quantum entanglement" may offer some clues.

Here's how it works. Once two particles have interacted, if you separate them, even by miles, they behave as if they're still connected. So far, this has only been demonstrated on the subatomic level.

But Radin wonders: Could people in close relationships — couples, siblings, parent and child — also be "entangled"? Not just emotionally, and psychologically — but also physically?

"If it is true that entanglement actually persists, by means of which we don't understand," he says, "if they are physically entangled, you should be able to separate them, poke one, and see the other one flinch."

This idea — that we may be connected at some molecular level — echoes the words of mystics down the ages. And it appeals to some scientists.

But it infuriates others — like Columbia University's Sloan. The underlying idea is wrong, he says. Entanglement just doesn't work this way. [...]




http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104351710

[Pellicer]

Quando eu ainda tinha conta no orkut, eu e um amigo meu que divide sala comigo entramos numa comunidade de cura quântica pra trollar. O pessoal vinha com uns papinhos de "quando vemos uma mulher bonita, o nosso estado se torna um auto-estado do operador hamiltoniano dessa mulher, …", que eram respondidos com coisa como "só se for um estado excitado". Só que esse amigo meu se empolgou e começou a usar todo o jargão que ele conhecia de teoria quântica de campos pra começar a falar todo tipo de coisa e as pessoas da comunidade acreditaram que ele era um especialista em cura quântica. Ele convenceu um deles a comprar um livro de pós-graduação de mecânica quântica na Amazon.com. Não sei se ele ainda perde tempo com isso.

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