Physicists seek to put one thing in two places

World Science ^ | 25 Sept 2006

[Twinkie]

Okay. I have noticed that my dog, Dixie, is IN TWO PLACES AT THE SAME TIME! I have hesitated to mention it to anyone, but this discovery explains it and makes it sort of okay to reveal it. - Well, anyway, during the day when I'm at the back door and look out - there stands Dixie waiting for me to pass her a treat out the back door. Then in a minute or so, when I move to the side door and look out, THERE STANDS DIXIE, tongue hanging out waiting for me to hand her out another slice of baloney or dog biscuit or something. There is NO WAY Dixie could run fast enough to be at both doors so soon. It is weird. In fact, her dry kibbles bin empties out so fast one would have to think there really are TWO Dixies living here.

And that's the way it is . . just another day here at Black Rock River Ranch, and such a comfort that science is finally explaining the strange happenings here at the ranch.

[NicknamedBob]

"... made an ob­ject move just by watch­ing it."

Not really. Simply an admission that for very tiny objects, the light that illuminates them can also give a tiny push.

I don't suppose they are willing to claim they can make an object move by watching it in the dark.

[Junior]

I once knew a guy named Vinnie who ended up in several places at once. In small, green, trash bags...

[Erasmus]

The gray sliv­er reach­ing from top to bot­tom, slanted in the im­age, is a na­no­me­chan­i­cal re­s­o­na­tor, a sub-mi­c­ro­s­co­pic de­vice that can vi­brate like a pia­no string. The im­age was tak­en with a scan­ning el­ec­tron mi­cro­scope and col­or­ized.

BZZZZT. PARITY EXCEPTION IE00007E00013A. GUTEN ABEND.

[dangerdoc]

bump

[Erasmus]

Who do you think he is, a bloody Doctor Bronowski?????!

[Boiler Plate]

Nothing is fundamental. There is always something smaller.

[snarks_when_bored]

Nothing is fundamental. There is always something smaller.

Maybe it's turtles all the way down?

[jpsb]

is it not a fundamental law of physics that no object can be in two places at the same time?

[MonroeDNA]

I can make guys on the golf channel miss a putt, just by thinking.

[Old Professer]

All of this makes perfect snse if the speed of light were nearly infinite.

[snarks_when_bored]

is it not a fundamental law of physics that no object can be in two places at the same time?

Objects that are sufficiently small appear capable of being in two (or more) places at once (part of quantum mechanical weirdness). As I read it, the researchers mentioned in the article are trying to find out precisely how large a thing must be before its capability of being in more than one position at a single moment becomes experimentally unobservable.

[jpsb]

hmmmm, thanks for the reply, I will have to pay attention to this thread, always thought being in two places at the same time was impossible. LOL, certainly would come in handy from time to time.

[bmwcyle]

you beat me

[Hand em their arse]

absolutely... and much, much more...

[Boiler Plate]

Watch out for the Oooblech!

[lonevoice]

“We’re try­ing to make a me­chan­i­cal de­vice be in two places at one time. What’s real­ly neat is it looks like we should be able to do it,” he said.

I just love the way these guys talk. Neat, I say.

[holden]

by touching it

Perhaps it's analogous to a policeman's radar gun to detect speed of cars, though on a different scale.

In this case, on that scale, however, it's as if they're throwing a soccer ball at a piece of plywood to measure distance to such a potentially-resonating surface, presumably to note movement over time, indicating resonance. The resonator inherently moves not only in the case of resonance due to other influences, but also from the forcing function of the soccer ball.

HF