Re: Layman's Guide to Quantum Entanglement

From: half_pint (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:12:17 +0100

"Dave Jarvis" <dave@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:4109F8D7.1090105@nospam.net...
> Hi, Half Pint.
>
> > "Figure 4.2 shows the behaviour of a particle when passing between
> > two magnetic fields. "
> > Looks like two magnets and one magnetic field to me!! Make your
> > mind up.
>
> Whoops! Looks like I erred here in a big way. I'm pretty sure that if
> you have a north and south magnet facing each other only one magnetic
> field will be present. I have fixed this. Thanks! (I could be wrong
> in my wrongness, though ...)

Well I suppose you could say it was two fields combined, which it is,
two fields combined into one.It's a bit like saying you have two half_pints
in a pint glass, it's true but it's a bit confusing to think of it like
that!!

( but not half as confusing as particle deflection in a magnetic field!!!)

>
> Dave

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