Interesting stuff from the CMS Experiment:
After nearly 6 months of smashing particles, the Large Hadron Collider has seen signs of something entirely new. Pairs of charged particles produced when two beams of protons collide seem to be associated with each other even after they fly apart. […]
It’s as if two particles somehow talked to each other when they were produced, the physicists said. This phenomenon has never been seen before in proton-proton collisions, though it resembles something seen at RHIC (the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. That effect was interpreted to be from the creation of hot dense matter shortly after the collisions.
The CMS team collected the data in mid-July, and spent the rest of the summer trying to blame it on an error or artifact of the data.
Wired Science: LHC Detects Evidence of New Physics
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September 30, 2010 at 3:10 pm
What do they want to say? That quantum entanglement is possible? I’d like that. Imagine a phone call to Moon in less than a second. That would be a really instant experience.