> Anyway, that's what quantum entanglement is all about, AFAIK. You take two photons that are "entangled" and shoot them in different directions. That way, whatever you do to one automatically happens to the other--change the spin of the one in your lab and you automatically change the spin of the one buzzing through space. Don't ask me how it works or to explain it better than that, I don't understand a lick of quantum theory--I can only parrot what I've read, mostly.
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Hi! I'm just bulling my way into this conversation here.. If I understand correctly what it is that they're talking about, it's the EPR paradox(guess who the 'E' is). There's a link explaining it at the end of the page. It's very counterintuitive..

> Anyway, I'd never heard a thing about doing anything bigger than a photon, much less something as comparatively gargantuan as a bacteria. Heck, I didn't even know they had a clue how to do it with any particle *other* than a photon.
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I think the big thing about this recent experiment was that they used something other than polarization to perform the experiment. The polarization version was done a while ago. They can apply this to bigger particles, theoretically, but I'd hate to have to construct a bacterium.. Ask me again in eight years when I'm starving.

Lucas