New York art institute offers 'quantum marriage' - May 12 through June 18

[bananas]

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/05/new_york_art_institute_offers.html

New York art institute offers 'quantum marriage' - May 05, 2011

For those people disillusioned with the institution of marriage, an experimental philosopher in New York City is offering a different means to share a special bond with your loved one.

Jonathon Keats will entangle couples, in the quantum sense, so that spooky action at a distance can be the bond connecting you to your chosen partner, rather than a certificate from the town hall.

Keats’s homemade entanglement kit sits in a sunny window in the nonprofit AC Institute in New York, which supports experimentation and art. Couples wishing to be entangled walk down a narrow corridor, two-people wide, and stand under the entanglement apparatus. This comprises a nonlinear crystal of beta-barium borate (commonly used to entangle photons), which will catch the sunlight from the window. Then a series of prisms will split that light – hopefully containing the entangled photons – and the light will hit the two people standing below. “They'll stand for approximately a minute, allowing countless entangled photons to bombard their skin, gently entangling their flesh by the photoelectric effect,” Keats explains in an email.

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So far Keats has tested the process only on himself and his wife, who he says are now happily entangled, “it certainly feels more significant than some government-stamped document.” If you fancy showing your love through physics, you can be entangled for free, just show up between May 12 and June 18 in the South Alcove of the AC Institute, 547 W. 27th St, 6th Floor, in New York City, and walk down the aisle.

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. On their honeymoon they go to the Hotel that is famous because

"Werner Heisenberg MAY have slept here, or here, or over here."

[VWolf]

2. Good one! And I would suppose they'll be lots of

quantum tunnelling going on. You know, to consummate.

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