[LINK] quantum physics makes the world weirder

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 18:04:25 AEST 2008


Just back to the article for a moment.

It looks to me like they might be able to  effectively look around  
corners and perhaps into places, say for instance rooms, without  
having an actual device, like a bug, in the room.  Kinda scarey.

On 2008/Jul/02, at 3:27 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:

> And signals all sorts of weirdness to come:
>
> http://futurismic.com/2008/07/01/ghost-photos-through-quantum-physics/
> link
>
> ‘Ghost’ Photos through Quantum Physics
>
>> “…[T]he image is not formed from light that hits the object and
>> bounces back. The camera collects photons from the light sources
>> that did not hit the object, but are paired through a quantum effect
>> with others that did. An image of the toy begins to appear after
>> approximately a thousand pairs of photons are recorded.”

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