DgarQuantum entanglement explained:
Socks come in pairs. If you put a sock on your left foot, the other sock of the pair instantly becomes the “right sock,” no matter where it is located in the universe.
Mike Torr@dgar ...and not a "spooky action at a distance" in sight. Bravo!
schrotie@miketorr @dgar
Indeed. One has to up one's game to expose the spukhafte Fernwirkung.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
Indeed. One has to up one's game to expose the spukhafte Fernwirkung.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
@schrotie I tend to favour Everettian QM so for me the socks are simply in different branches of the wave function. Come to think of it, perhaps that's where they go when the washing machine swallows them.
SmithWillSuffice@miketorr @schrotie
You will need a new branch for every configuration of woolen fibres down to the constituent quark (entanglement is qubit monogamous). And have a metaphysics where branches can re-merge. Total bollocks. ;-)
There is an infinitely (literally) more parsimonious explanation for entanglement, and it is spacetime topology. ER=EPR.
You will need a new branch for every configuration of woolen fibres down to the constituent quark (entanglement is qubit monogamous). And have a metaphysics where branches can re-merge. Total bollocks. ;-)
There is an infinitely (literally) more parsimonious explanation for entanglement, and it is spacetime topology. ER=EPR.
@SmithWillSuffice @schrotie Yeah, I'll get back to you when I've read more.
James 🦉 #FBPE 
n3wjack@dgar What if I put both socks on the same foot?
Raymond Russell
Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.@MugsysRapSheet @dgar What if I put my socks over each other before I put them on my left foot? Like, at the same time.
So there is no left or right sock. There's just two socks.
Will it end the universe as we know it?
Fi 🏳️⚧️@n3wjack @MugsysRapSheet @dgar
that's forbidden by the Pauli Exclusion Principle; can't wear two socks on the same foot.
Seth@dgar Relatedly, it’s also the Schrödinger’s Sock. The two socks, both left and simultaneously right, until you observe one on your foot.
Rob@dgar See also, Bertlmann’s socks.
Zillion
Simon Zerafa
Barry Schwartz 🫖@dgar I wish it WERE a joke. That's exactly what "entanglement" is. The physicists want us to believe it is due to instantly created magic rather than to things that existed and were true all along. They use their PhDs to bully us into submission.
(My top pinned toot shows a very simple example, whose "entanglement" claims can be looked up on Wikipedia.)
Jason P 🇺🇦 🌍🌎🌏@dgar Where the analogy falls short is that there is no measurement you can perform on the other sock to determine whether it has become left or right. Leftness or rightness isn't an intrinsic property of the sock but just a way of referring to it.
KnuppelBeer 🐻
Kingfisher@dgar Love this place... a discussion about Quantum entanglement becomes a discussion about sock degradation patterns...
Steve Felten@dgar Analogy fails in that if both socks have the potential to become the right sock, the information that one was manifested has to be transmitted to the other.
Meercat ✅
@dgar makes sense
@dgar
PROBLEM: If "right sock" is lost, I'm pretty sure you can't use "left sock" to find it. 😉
#QuantumEntanglement
PROBLEM: If "right sock" is lost, I'm pretty sure you can't use "left sock" to find it. 😉
#QuantumEntanglement
Xevious@dgar unless the other one is in my sock drawer, in which case the entanglement is broken
Farce Majeure@dgar 2) once a sock becomes a Left Sock or a Right Sock, it remains a Left Sock or a Right Sock until it is washed.
Punnamaraju Vinayaka Tejas@dgar what if someone else puts it on their left foot too?
Jason844 🙃@dgar No, that's superposition.
Matthew
Virginicus@mrblissett @dgar These are distinguishable particles, which obey different statistics.
this is genuinely the best metaphor I have ever seen for this, lol.
Force of Habit
MostlyTato@dgar
I read the explanation before I read the headline, and thought: this is how entaglement works! /doh!
I read the explanation before I read the headline, and thought: this is how entaglement works! /doh!
Juhis@dgar In my life, once any sock is in the left foot, any other sock becomes the "right sock".
ArchaeoIain@dgar I knew someone who bought socks in different colours but the same style. She always wore differently coloured socks and never wore two socks of the same colour. When asked why, she said that she never paired them just shoved them in a drawer and selected two at random each morning. Of course, she NEVER wore socks of the same colour. Thus I concluded that there was a coda to the rule: the second sock becomes the right sock only if it is of a different colour.
Aviva Gary@dgar perfection... the comments too
@Aviva_Gary
The comments have been great. 😊
The comments have been great. 😊
Robert Link
Bill Seitz@dgar but does that change its flavor?
Steve James has movedThe left-right #sock #QuantumEntaglement effect is unstable in the presence of a top-bottom spin field. This is, of course, why a sock may sometimes disappear entirely from the washing machine during the spin cycle, having annihilated somewhere between 1500 and 1680 rpm. The signature squealing pop of the event is a difficult signal to detect in the overwhelming motor noise without the use of sensitive lab equipment. Or a #cat.
Stefan Eissing@dgar Supersymmetry.
James BrittThank you.
Jake Rayson
wlf_warren
Dianora (Diane Bruce)@dgar Damn those micro blackholes.
NO NAME@dgar so what you're saying is, "Always start on the left!"
Stu Duerson, machina exo deusThe corollary to that is Schrodinger's Sock. If you put a sock in the dryer, you do not know whether the sock is there, or lost.
This theory is named after Argyle Schrodinger, who also developed the mathematical proof for chirality of socks.
Le Patenteux 
@dgar when you have kids, this changes to:
If you put a sock on your left foot, the other sock immediatly disapears to the " lost socks universe"
If you put a sock on your left foot, the other sock immediatly disapears to the " lost socks universe"
@Normand_Nadon with guitar picks and pens.
@dgar
No... These travel to the lost cigarette lighters universe, and they prove that particles can come and go out of existense because they reappear out of nowhere! (Mostly 5 minutes after you bought a new one)
No... These travel to the lost cigarette lighters universe, and they prove that particles can come and go out of existense because they reappear out of nowhere! (Mostly 5 minutes after you bought a new one)
Jose Luis Peruyero@Normand_Nadon
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Cigarette lighters disappear because smoking is bad for your memory.
There was a good comic about a man that got lost in Paris underground because he wrote de right line and station in a box of matches and then threw it, blaming tobacco for his bad memory. The poor guy ended in a state of wildness, half-animal look.
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Cigarette lighters disappear because smoking is bad for your memory.
There was a good comic about a man that got lost in Paris underground because he wrote de right line and station in a box of matches and then threw it, blaming tobacco for his bad memory. The poor guy ended in a state of wildness, half-animal look.
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KarlE@dgar if I have an even number of socks that are not distinguishible, is the one becoming the other sock (right sock in the example) the one that was closest to it when bought, or the one I last wore on the other foot at the same time, or all of them to a fraction? @flauschzelle
Chris A Moody@dgar what if you had two left feet? 😁
🗦 𝙴𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚎 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚠 🗧（🦣)But what happens when they get lost in the dryer?
@EubieDrew
I understand there’s a dedicated planet someplace…
I understand there’s a dedicated planet someplace…
Ross of Ottawa@dgar what if a cat steals your sock and takes it into a box with a radioactive isotope?
🌲@dgar and👏it👏does👏not👏transmit👏new👏information👏faster👏than👏light