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Quantum entanglement is one of the weirdest and coolest phenomena in physics, but it's absolutely not a method for sending messages faster than light, for subtle and complicated reasons.
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The envelopes for this year’s Nobel Prize winners are already sealed, but a survey of physicists offers ideas on future discoveries that are shoo-ins for Nobel recognition.
Our excellent physics blogger Chad Orzel has a post up about the thermodynamics of Goldilocks. Seems it's a little questionable to have the porridge configured as it was in the old tale. A few wags in the comments complain that in a story with talking bears physics is the least of the concerns, but I think that misses the point. Suspension of disbelief requires that we grant the story the ability to say wild things so long as it does so in an internally consistent way.
The phenomenon of entanglement, described by Einstein as “spooky action at a distance,” is getting the Marvel treatment. Physicist Chad Orzel explains how it works.