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Posted by mackopes 4/1/2025

CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep(home.cern)
338 points | 107 commentspage 3
mlacks 4/1/2025|
The evidence has several ramifications for ovine research and has set the baa for a new branch of quantum physics.

set the baa haha

nimish 4/1/2025||
Why can't they find out why no one has done anything interesting in theoretical physics in 50 years?

This stuff is lame in 2025.

robin_reala 4/1/2025||
Maybe review the last 25 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_fundamental_physic...
nimish 4/2/2025|||
no experimental verification even possible in most of those, and/or the theory had been more or less fixed before ~1990

Many such cases. Very boring stuff now, not worth spending the money.

jcranmer 4/1/2025|||
That's all experimental physics, not theoretical physics.
Calwestjobs 4/1/2025||
Well topological order sound like april first to me. Emergent gravity looks to me million times more plausible then that mess :)
seabass-labrax 4/1/2025||
If you want mind-expandingly interesting theoretical physics, give the Wolfram Physics Project[1] a look. It is a refreshingly different look at fundamental physics, and one that is perhaps more familiar to a computer scientist's perspective than, say, quantum mechanics.

[1]: https://www.wolframphysics.org/index.php.en

nimish 4/1/2025||
I have done enough mathematics and have spoken to wolfram personally, it's interesting but not connected enough to existing theory despite his personal genius at QCD
agnosticmantis 4/1/2025||
Is April 1st the "no web scraping day" for LLM shops?

There may be health benefits for LLMs to fast on certain days...

6thbit 4/1/2025|
this may be an interesting tactic vs crawlers.. date everything april 1st
amelius 4/1/2025||
Turns out that physics is a soft science.
blueberrychpstx 4/1/2025||
Guilty of reading this with curiosity until I read one of the head researchers names is Beau Peep
0xdeadbeefbabe 4/1/2025||
I just wanted to complain that this will dilute the I in AI, and their maintainers ought to sue.
internet_points 4/1/2025|
won't someone please think of the children^Wbillionaires^Wlanguage models

(actually, I asked gpt4o to ELI5 the article and it told me it was an april fool's joke, so I have the feeling the llm's are doing better than half the commenters here)

neuroelectron 4/1/2025||
I imagine their proximity to the CERN site has something to do with it.
sva_ 4/1/2025||
All this negativity here. I, for one, enjoy silly April's Fools jokes once a year.
vikingerik 4/1/2025||
Same here. The problem, though, is that on the internet the articles stick around past that day and confuse everyone forever.
Tainnor 4/1/2025||
HN is not exactly known for its sense of humour.
nartho 4/1/2025||
I find this hard to believe, can you provide the links to at least 2 reputable publications that corroborate your claims ?
dbacar 4/1/2025|
Man, even these guys are behind April Fools :)...
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