Keith Schwab, Cornell associate professor of physics, has created a device and you can lower the temperature of the object -- just by watching it, and make it move.
QUANTUM MECHANICS this tiny world is strange
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skyking
Telekinesis has just been proved true in this tiny world. Make you wonder, at least it does me, if you can do this by thought what is the scientific process that allows this to happen sounds like magic
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AuldSoul
I wonder if Terry will be along momentarily to drop yet another plug for his thread...
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pseudoxristos
The movement of the device is not caused by telekinesis.
They are watching the device with a "single electron transistor". The use of the transistor to "watch" the device is what is causing the movement and temperature change.
The device is actually a tiny (8.7 microns, or millionths of a meter, long; 200 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, wide) sliver of aluminum on silicon nitride, pinned down at both ends and allowed to vibrate in the middle. Nearby, Schwab positioned a superconducting single electron transistor (SSET) to detect minuscule changes in the sliver's position.
According to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the precision of simultaneous measurements of position and velocity of a particle is limited by a quantifiable amount. Schwab and his colleagues were able to get closer than ever to that theoretical limit with their measurements, demonstrating as well a phenomenon called back action, by which the act of observing something actually gives it a nudge of momentum.
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stillajwexelder
Yes I love the study of Quantum Mecahnics - did it at college for a whole semester