We’re led to believe the holidays are a stressful time of year. I thought I’d better check on the dogs to see how they’re doing.
Henry.
He seems to be hanging in there.
Jesse.
Yeah. I think she’s dealing with the challenges.
And me, woke up this morning after nine hours of sleep. On my back, mouth open, couldn’t close it because my lips were stuck to my teeth. So far so good. Judy’s doing the best she can on Nyquil.
Well, except for the weather. It changed again. No more 80 degree days for a while. Now we’re in the 50s and 60s. A little damp. Not camping weather for sure. Not for us anyway.
Didn’t get out today, so no new bird pictures. I’ll send out a dinner picture instead.
My (should be) world famous grilled wings!
I don’t have any new bird pictures to send out. Maybe I can get out tomorrow and find a picture of something.
In the meantime, there has been an unexpected feature of covid for us. We started distancing three years ago at the start of the pandemic. We haven’t gotten covid yet, and we haven’t gotten any other sort of respiratory malady either. No flu. No crud. No bronchitis. Neither one of us has been sick for three years!
It’s safe to say this now, we’re not inviting the end of a streak, because the streak has just broken. Judy feels crummy. Cough. Sore throat. No fever though. We did the covid test and happily it’s negative. Probably just a cold.
Neither one of us has had covid, but most everyone else we know has. We’ll hope this not-covid that Judy has now will pass quickly and we’ll be back to our energetic selves soon. Not really any practical way to isolate in this small house. We’ll just stay together, away from everybody else, and whatever one of us gets, we’ll both get. Besides, how’s she going to get better if somebody isn’t rubbing her feet every night!
Got some pretty good emails back from that opening statement yesterday.
It’s not like I totally understand what’s going on, but I’m fascinated by the concept that two subatomic particles can get inexorably bound (entangled). When there are multiple possible states for two entangled particles, if you determine the condition of one, you know with certainty the condition of the other. They’re probably not in the same condition, they’re probably opposite. If we’re looking at entangled photons, they can have two different states, State A and State B. (Left spin, right spin.) Once these two particles are entangled, they will always be in opposite states. If we change the state of one of these particles, the other will instantly change too. They could be side by side or far away from each other, but the change will be instant, and instantly is even faster than the speed of light, which is not supposed to be possible. Einstein called it “Spooky action at a distance.”
Action at a distance itself is not all that big a deal. A magnet pulling iron filings across a sheet of paper without actually touching them is action at a distance. Gravitational force between massive objects, like stars, planets, and galaxies. That counts. But these actions are explained by known classical physics magnetic and gravitation forces. Quantum entanglement of subatomic particles is different. With no known other force acting on it, you can instantly change the condition of a single particle by changing the condition of its entangled partner, wherever it is, whether they are right next to each other or on opposite sides of the Universe!
Let’s talk about quantum entanglement.
Okay. You go first.
