This bears repeating:

Someone today wrote to another person on a board I frequent:

"The damn disc drive in your computer, used to load your OS that eventually sets you up to ignorantly blather here reads discs with a laser - which was a predicted quantum effect of light."

No it most certainly fucking was NOT a "predicted quantum effect", it came about because of hard scientific observation as to the actual effects of light and experimentation with data storage. Thank you for providing yet another example of religion masquerading as science. "Quantum prediction" has exactly as much to do with optical drives as it has to do with what you had for breakfast this morning.

It's put forward as explaining everything, but it explains nothing. Just call it "quantum information mirroring" and shut your brain off, stop researching actual causes and effects.

Most people don't even realize that Schrodinger's Cat is actually a joke meant to demonstrate how absurd the rape of actual quantum physics and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in science circles really is.

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is as follows: Extremely small (quantum) particles cannot be observed by any currently known means because they all require bombarding these particles with heavier particles. Because you cannot observe, with our current technology, these events without severely screwing up the results, it is impossible to know what's really going on at that level.

Some persons took "you cannot reliably observe particles smaller than light particles because your light particles are way too heavy and fast" to mean "you cannot observe anything without significantly changing the outcome, therefore everything exists in every possible state until it is observed."

It's like the old Zen thought. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody observes it, does it still make a sound? Of course it makes a sound, the thought exercise is supposed to be about the relative significance of events. The new religion in a labcoat is the dumbass in the first year philosophy class who took it literally and went "Oh my god! *bong hit* that's so deep! My mind is expanding.. nothing happens until it's observed, and therefore until it's observed, EVERYTHING has happened, man! We can USE this.. to like.. transmit information! If one box has a glove and the other box has no glove and nobody knows which is which, it's not decided until the box is opened! Instant information transfer, man! Now we just need to *bong hit* find some way to attach OTHER information along with THAT transmission!"

I mean, don't get me wrong, I loved Ender's Game as much as the next guy... but there's a reason the ansible doesn't occur in any hard science fiction. Quantum entanglement is hilarious bullshit, because it presumes on somehow separating two subatomic particles yet maintaining the bond which prevents that separation. You can't build on that. That's not science. Until someone finds a way to make that happen, the rest is pissing in the wind.

You can't skip that many steps, we might as well be 11th century man arguing about the makeup of the firmament based on the theory that a bird can only fly so high because they knock into it. I wish I was making that absurd example up, but those are the sorts of things that happened in the Dark Ages. Welcome to the beginning of The Dark Ages II: Darkness Appearing as Light.