Quantum Microscope Created That Can See the Impossible
In a major scientific leap, University of Queensland researchers have created a quantum microscope that can reveal biological structures that would otherwise be impossible to see.
This paves the way for applications in biotechnology, and could extend far beyond this into areas ranging from navigation to medical imaging.
The microscope is powered by the science of quantum entanglement, an effect Einstein described as “spooky interactions at a distance.”
Professor Warwick Bowen, from UQ’s Quantum Optics Lab and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS), said it was the first entanglement-based sensor with performance beyond the best possible existing technology.
“This breakthrough will spark all sorts of new technologies — from better navigation systems to better MRI machines, you name it,” Professor Bowen said.
“Entanglement is thought to lie at the heart of a quantum revolution. We’ve finally demonstrated that sensors that use it can supersede existing, non-quantum technology. This is exciting — it’s the first proof of the paradigm-changing potential of entanglement for sensing.”
Australia’s Quantum Technologies Roadmap sees quantum sensors spurring a new wave of technological innovation in healthcare, engineering, transport and resources.
A major success of the team’s quantum microscope was its ability to catapult over a ‘hard barrier’ in traditional light-based microscopy.
Image: University of Queensland
“The best light microscopes use bright lasers that are billions of times brighter than the sun,” Professor Bowen said.
“Fragile biological systems like a human cell can only survive a short time in them and this is a major roadblock. The quantum entanglement in our microscope provides 35 percent improved clarity without destroying the cell, allowing us to see minute biological structures that would otherwise be invisible. The benefits are obvious — from a better understanding of living systems, to improved diagnostic technologies.”
Professor Bowen said there were potentially boundless opportunities for quantum entanglement in technology.
“Entanglement is set to revolutionize computing, communication, and sensing,” he said.
“Absolutely secure communication was demonstrated some decades ago as the first demonstration of absolute quantum advantage over conventional technologies. Computing faster than any possible conventional computer was demonstrated by Google two years ago, as the first demonstration of absolute advantage in computing. The last piece in the puzzle was sensing, and we’ve now closed that gap. This opens the door for some wide-ranging technological revolutions.”
Reference: “Quantum-enhanced nonlinear microscopy” by Catxere A. Casacio, Lars S. Madsen, Alex Terrasson, Muhammad Waleed, Kai Barnscheidt, Boris Hage, Michael A. Taylor and Warwick P. Bowen9 June 2021, Nature.
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03528-w
The research was supported by the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Australian Research Council.
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Randy
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To Principia Scientific and the crowd who denies that sarscov2 exists.
We can see individual atoms & quantum fluctuations with microscopes but not the sarscov2 virus orders of magnitude larger.
Cognitive dissonance at its finest. 🤡
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Herb Rose
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Hi Randy,
We can’t see atoms and there is no such thing as “quantum fluctuations”. What they have is an instrument hooked to a computer which is programed to give them the image they expect to find. It, like accelerators, is “tea leaves reading” physics where they produce garbage and then tell you what it means. They are able to find and confirm anything and everything they want to find, but never discover anything new.
Herb
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Tom O
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I tend to agree with you. You certain do exhibit “Cognitive dissonance at its finest.”
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JaKo
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Hi Randy,
Being inherently skeptical precludes “Cognitive Dissonance.”
Believing in existence of something as chimeric as SARS-CoV-2, without a reasonable doubt, could invoke this CD nicely though, when confronted with a simple proof of its fallacy.
But do no worry, CD is just another “theory,” not dissimilar to that of CoViD-1984 😉
Cheers, JaKo
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WiseOne
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Pay attention what Kary Mullis says in this video: https://www.bitchute.com/video/4nfCPRgIjb1J/
Kary Mullis is the inventor of PCR test that has been widely misused to push political agendas. Has he been still around, I am sure he’d not allow his invention to be misused like that. Sadly Kary Mullis died of pneumonia (I am guessing Covid-19) a year before the shit show started. So there, pay attention, and learn the truth.
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Binra
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Rife and Naessons invented forms of microscopy that opened the direct vision of living biota but both uncovered truth that an invested corporate identity did not want to see, or rather, did not want known and accepted in place of the narratives by which they claim right and power.
If this quantum instrument ‘finds’ what the Corp-Gov wants to see, it will be funded and used to define a reality from which diagnosis, tests, treatments and prophylactics – or genetic pre-emptive strikes – can operate as Officially Mandated Reality.
The shift or retreat of science to mathematically modelled hi-tech esoteric and arcane procedures is because empiric and relational honesty does not support the Model, but the Model, deemed too big to fail, must then sacrifice Life and Reality to generate a bubble reality in which to seek sustainability (systemic sacrifice) until the inevitable Popper or paradigm shift of a disregard for the Wizard of Oz operating behind curtains.
Cognitive dissonance is an invested identity in a conflict with Reality. Blind spots are part of our human mind, but the degree to which a mind can deny its own relations for a model can be insane or dissociated from capacity to find relationship with. Though there is always some awareness present.
The virology dept can discover the impossible already.
Protected or securitised narratives operate as cover story for our deference to and sacrificial rites and denials under a Wizard of Oz.
Perception management costs a World Soul, in exchange for following false profits under false premises.
Royal Raymond Rife
http://www.whale.to/w/rife.html
Gaston Naessons
http://whale.to/v/naessens.html
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Tom
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Kinda scary since pharma will try to create even more anti-human drugs and interventions more harmful than mRNA injections. Biotechnology will never replace the workings of the human body with something better. The deeper it goes into our make-up, the more they will screw things up. So tell me dear reader, why are there usually reactions to pharma drugs, that sometimes result in death and severe debilitation? If drugs are so natural, then why does the body try to reject them by presenting any number of negative reactions? Most drugs are pure poison to the body. Even a few grains of Arsenic will kill you over time as it accumulates. And so do many drugs, but don’t expect big pharma to ever in a million years tell the truth.
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