Philosophy Wire: Quantum states. Forever. Now! (Watch for Socrates)

A team of scientists has announced the discovery of a simple modification that allows quantum systems to stay operational - or 'coherent' - 10,000 times longer than before. [1] One second. Ten thousand seconds. A century. A thousand years. Forever. Different words meaning the same thing: Now. For all there ever is, is now. Look at the water drops falling. The bee buzzing. Worlds colliding. Empires falling. Do you feel it? No, they did not crumble in the past. Look at Rome burning! And stop looking at those stupid particles. Socrates dies as we speak! Whispering to us…

(Nothing is coherent… Except the world that is not…)

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