For tenner , Schrödinger ’s famous thought experimentation involving a cat has been the turn - to illustration of quantum mechanics . But now there ’s a newfangled quantum puzzle , which asks : Can three pigeons be set into two pigeonholes with no two pigeons being in the same maw ?
Prepare for your brainiac to hurt a little as you read what the researchers describe inthe abstract of their fresh publish newspaper publisher :
“ If you put three pigeon in two pigeonholes , at least two of the pigeons end up in the same hole , ” is an obvious yet key rule of nature as it get the very essence of counting . Here however we show that in quantum mechanics this is not true ! We rule instances when three quantum particles are put in two boxes , yet no two particle are in the same box .
The enquiry , release in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , demonstrate — through a series of complex quantum calculations that seem moderately impenetrable — that it ’s possible to put an arbitrarily large number of particles into two box without any two particles ever ending up in the same one boxful .
Right . Yes , that is pretty bewildering — but then , it seems to be for the researchers too . Speaking to PhysOrg , Jeff Tollasken , one of the researcher , explain :
It is still very early to say what the full implications of this enquiry are … But we palpate one should expect them to be major because we are consider with such cardinal concepts .
We can probably wait this new discovery to shape modern thinking about some of the weirder part of quantum doings , likespooky action mechanism at a length . Quite how , though ? We ’ll just have to wait and see .
[ Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesviaPhysOrg ]
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