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Entangled photons – Two shadows of Omega

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Two shadows of Omega

Omega from the quantum dimension mutates into two shadows of himself when interacting with Alice and Bob.

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Alice and Bob are surprised about the two chessboards at the end of Omega’s room, opposite the two doors. Just like the doors, the two chessboards stand for the experimental results from pairs of entangled photons. In this metaphor, the two figures of Alice and Bob become detectors of photon pairs.

In the film, Bob starts the experiment with the press of a button. We see an object in the centre of the room, which is illuminated from the two doors, each one by a flickering headlight. Thus, Alice and Bob see, on the opposite wall, two flickering shadows of a single object. In that respect, the shadow metaphor shows the following: when projected onto the wall by two headlights, the three-dimensional object loses the third dimension, and is shown as a pairs of two-dimensional shadows.

 

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