Justin DuJardin |O_o| |x_X| |-_-| |o_O|

Well fuck you too, decoherence.

I recently finished reading a really fantastic book by Charles Seife called Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, From our Brains to Black Holes that talks about classical and quantum physics in the context of Information Theory.

The badassery of this book aside, that’s not what I’m here to talk about; I’ve got a bone to pick with the  theory of quantum decoherence.  As any good power-nerd reading up on quantum theory I was particularly interested in the wacky things that can happen at the quantum level of things such as  superposed objects, and entangled objects that appear to communicate at faster than the speed of light.

As it turns out quantum decoherence is like being waken up in the middle of a great dream about flying over a city-scape at night, only to realize that your alarm is telling you to get off your ass and embrace the real-world.  It says that I can’t remain unobserved (in a quantum state) for any measurable period of time because I’m so big.  Weak.