Comment Hope for Homeopathy? (Score 0, Offtopic) 376
Actually, jokes aside, this IS an interesting effect although I disagree with their use of the word "Off". The computer is powered up. But they are starving it of "normal" input.
To paraphrase: They feed the computer a signal (photon) but then intercept the signal before it can make it into computer. If light was purely particle, that would be the end of the story. However light is also wave/quantum thingy. Somehow, over several runs, enough of the wave/quantum thingy made it into the computer to make process the input.
If light is a wave, maybe they had a timing issue and enough of the wave made it into the computer.
If light is a quantum thingy, maybe they have discovered a way to imprint space-time (ether?) with the quantum state information of a removed object. If it IS this latter effect, maybe there is hope for homeopathy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy.
Homeopaths claim to dilute their active ingredients to the point of being non-existant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#The_.22Th
The "Real World" IS just a big quantum computer.... Who knows?
I am NOT a proponent of homeopathy -- it just bears a similarity to the experiment above.