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THIS ARTICLE reports that In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for groundbreaking experiments with entangled photons. These experiments confirmed the predictions for the manifestation of entanglement and pioneered quantum information science.
For the first time, experimenters have succeeded in observing quantum entanglement between fundamental particles called top quarks, and at the highest energies yet.
The top quark is the heaviest known fundamental particle. It normally decays into other particles before it has time to combine with other quarks, transferring its spin and other quantum traits to its decay particles.
Perhaps a billiard table is a workable, but poor, analogy for the basic explanation of what these scientists have succeeded in doing. All the matter of creation are like balls on a billiard table, though they are constantly in motion and in instances constantly breaking apart and imparting energy to other balls. When a player comes up to strike a ball to make a shot, usually the ball has broken apart into other fragments before it can be set in motion. Since there is so much motion, so much fragmentation, so much recombining into new entities (think gravity pulling asteroids together into new balls) and so much that we DON’T know about, it takes a masterful player indeed to just attempt to play these billiards.
The observation of quantum entanglement in a new particle system and at much higher energy than previously possible is remarkable. It paves the way for new investigations into this fascinating phenomenon, opening up a rich menu of exploration. With measurements of entanglement and other quantum concepts in a new particle system and at an energy range beyond what was previously accessible, we can test the Standard Model of particle physics in new ways and look for signs of new physics that may lie beyond it.
Check this video out for a better explanation of Quantum Field Visualization:
* Courtesy University of Glasgow. Overlay with Vesica Piscis, (right). Courtesy Nancy Burson.
