Quantum Mechanics Survives Extreme Tests in Two Landmark Experiments
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Two recent experiments have tested the foundations of quantum mechanics under extreme conditions. At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, physicists detected strong evidence that heavy Z bosons can become quantum entangled during Higgs boson decays. This result supports the idea of Einstein’s 'spooky action at a distance' surviving even in some of the most extreme environments ever created in a laboratory, according to Science Daily.
In a separate study conducted deep beneath Italy’s Gran Sasso mountain, researchers sought to test a theory that tiny fluctuations in spacetime, caused by gravity, destroy quantum superpositions. Using a highly shielded germanium detector, they measured for 62 days but found no evidence of the extremely faint radiation signal predicted by the theory. This result suggests that gravity may not be the reason quantum effects disappear in the macroscopic world, as reported by Science Daily.
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