Yes, in the US there's always an election coming up, but no, both these senators were elected in 2016 to 6-year terms so neither is facing reelection. Perhaps you could consider the possibility that they mean what they say and are actually concerned about the future of free speech?
A C-type asteroid, which is a target of Hayabusa2, is a more primordial body than Itokawa [the target of Hayabusa and an S-type], and is considered to contain more organic or hydrated minerals.... we expect to clarify the origin of life by analyzing [samples from Ryugu].
The Bad Astonomy blog has more discussion of the mission:
The spacecraft will deploy an impactor that will slam a 2.5 kilo piece of copper into the surface at 2 km/sec. This will dig down into the asteroid, revealing material underneath, which can then be analyzed to understand Ryugu's interior.
... will be referred to the new Schrodinger Committee where they can remain both live and dead while unobserved.
' Increasing Entanglement Between Military and Industrial Complexes'
Will the US be able to pay for these initiatives by printing quantum money?
Other US senators politely referred to the text of Harris' bills as 'superdense coding'.
Repeated measurements of Senator Harris in the Congressional eigenbasis always collapse to the |Democrat> state.
FTA:
'So, why now, after 25 years, do lawmakers appear willing to lift SETI’s taboo status? The short answer is that someone in Congress is into it. The provision comes from Lamar Smith, a Republican congressman from Texas, who worked with the SETI Institute to craft the language, according to SETI researchers. '
No, quantum teleportation requires information to be sent in addition to the entangled state, and one can think of measuring the amount of that information classically, but there is no prohibition on sending the additional information non-classically. As qbits, for example.
Perhaps this is a matter of the meaning of the term 'channel'. I'll avoid that term by saying the additional information needed for quantum teleportation can be sent either classically or quantum mechanically.
To use your example of sending 2 classical bits to teleport 1 qbit: those 2 classical bits represent two binary decisions the receiver must make. How the receiver comes to make those decisions correctly is not crucial.
Good question (nothing 'slow' about it!). The short answer: Statistically.
Longer answer: Suppose you prepare a system in a quantum state you suspect is entangled. By definition, that system will have parts that can be measured separately. Because the parts are entangled, some measurements of the parts will be correlated. A single measurement of the parts might show that the correlation is violated, in which case you've learned that the state is *not* entangled (possibly is was entangled but that entanglement has been lost). But no single measurement can confirm entanglement. To confirm entanglement, you need to prepare the system in same state multiple times, measure each time, and confirm the measurement correlations are as predicted by quantum mechanics.
I find the summary in great need of clarification. Let me attempt to clarify it in the hope that will be useful to other readers.
First, the linked article links to a much better summary written by one of the team members, Matt Woolley. I recommend you read it instead:
https://theconversation.com/ex...
Second, the summary conflates *mass* with *distance*. The experimenters claim to have entangled remarkably massive objects (compared to the mass of atoms, for example). But the summary says 'any attempt to increase the sizes has caused problems with stability' and that, taken literally, is not true. For example, here's an experiment from 1998 in which entanglement was maintained over a distance of kilometers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Finally, the summary claims 'a major step forward in our understanding of quantum physics' but I doubt that. It sounds to me like a major accomplishment but one that *confirms* our previous understanding of quantum physics in more massive systems.
You are right about quantum entanglement. But the team member was talking about quantum teleportation, not just entanglement, and I suspect that you misunderstand the difference.
'You cannot set the value at one end and have it appear on the other.'
Right, about entanglement.
'properties of physical bodies can be transmitted across arbitrary distances'
Right, where the properties are quantum states.
'This is a fundamental misunderstanding of entanglement.'
No, it's not. Quantum teleportation depends on having an entangled state, which is used to move some other quantum state from here to there. It also depends on sending some information from here to there in another communication channel, possibly classical (i.e., non-quantum). I suggest you read more about quantum teleportation, e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Intel : '20 millikelvin
How do they know that no part of my house is below 20 mK? It's kinda cold in here right now.
More seriously, how do they know that no other qbit technology will ever remove their low-temperature restriction?
'I find calling them nazis for short to be acceptable. The fact that they exist today inherently means that they're neo-nazis'
I agree with you.
'There are vanishingly few differences...'
I disagree. Few neo-nazis will be angry about the humiliation of the Versailles Treaty, or demanding an overthrow of the Weimar Republic. Few will be concerned with the threat from 'Jew-Bolsheviks'. Outside central Europe I doubt many neo-nazis are advocating unification of the German-speaking peoples in a single nation, nor military conquest of Lebensraum for this nation (although I confess I haven't looked for recent polling data on these questions).
"Thanks Obama"
Supergirl seems to work for free, though, so that is downward pressure on salaries at the DEO. NASA might need to pay more.
Warma wrote: "...for land-dwelling life to produce a sentient species"
MangoCats wrote: "...sentience includes industrial scale exploitation..."
Would you both please consider replacing "sentience" with "sapience" in such sentences? Those of us who are ourselves sapient would then find your comments make more sense.
A comparison of these words: http://casinerina.blogspot.com...
Friction is a drag.
