A group of scientists in China used quantum physics to show how brittle our idea of reality is.
You don't actually exist.
quantum advantage is the big idea here. This is usually heard in the world of quantum computing. The quantum advantage is the point at which a quantum computer can beat a classical computer.
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Outside of quantum computing, quantum advantage is used to describe a situation where the exploitation of quantum mechanics allows a system to perform better than a person.
A team of researchers working with scientists at a university in China published a pre-print research paper indicating they had found a simple but effective method for demonstrating quantum advantage.
The paper's abstract is here.
Quantum advantages have been found in various areas of quantum information processing, from communication and computation to materials and engineering. Such advantages come from quantum resources, which could be entanglement, nonlocality, indistinguishablity, and so on. Quantum games have been widely used to reveal such quantum resources in an operational manner: the players equipped with a certain quantum resource can achieve better performance than those with classical ones.
The team used the Mermin-Peres game to demonstrate quantum advantage.
The players use a grid to record their results. A judge picks a place on the grid. The players have the same measurement.
The rules make is so there is a mathematical limit to the accuracy of any two people using classical methods.
The researchers showed that independent observers can surpass the classical accuracy limit.
The measurement is causing the outcomes and not the other way around.
If base reality wasn't being measured, we couldn't surpass the classical accuracy threshold. We can use quantum physics to mimic telepathy. Observer two confirm player one's measurement with theirs.
Human pseudotelepathy gives us a quantum advantage. That's cool.
The reality we live in is explained by classical physics. It doesn't matter if you're a physicist or a baby, the same things affect us all the same.
We are all bound by the same odds. We all get a chance to call a coin toss correctly.
It's a cheat code for the universe. The quantum world didn't follow the rules when scientists started playing with it.
Physicists aren't being facetious when they say that objective reality doesn't exist
Reality doesn't hold up to scientific methods.
You can probably use quantum physics to take your base 50% chance of predicting the outcome of a coin toss to full confidence.
If you secretly measured the first coin before it hit the ground, you would know the outcome.
Anything in the universe could be entangled under the right circumstances, so it's science fiction at this point. It seems that quantum psuedotelepathy is actually real.
All pre-print research is taken with a grain of salt. This is based on an experiment that has been going on for a while.
Experiments like this make it seem like objective reality as we experience it.
Physicists are going to break reality next.
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