But not everybody is convinced.
A team of researchers from Europe and Asia claim to have quantum entangled frozen tardigrades, microscopic animals that are, the researchers managed the feat by placing frozen tardigrades between two capacitor plates of a superconductor circuit to form a qubit, the quantum equivalent of a bit.They then placed this circuit in the vicinity of a second superconductor circuit. Lo and behold, the team observed that the frequency of both qubits and the tardigrade changed in tandem.
As a refresher, quantum entanglement occurs when subatomic particles interact with each other despite despite being apart from each other, a process Albert Einstein nicknamed "spooky action at a distance." It's worth noting that the results, which have yet to be peer reviewed, are already being called into question by other physicists,"The qubit is an electrical circuit and putting the tardigrade next to it affects it through the laws of electromagnetism we've known about for more than 150 years," science writer and physicist Ben Brubaker"Putting a speck of dust next to the qubit would have a similar effect," he added.
"Our present investigation is perhaps the closest realization combining biological matter and quantum matter available with present-day technology," the researchers write in their paper. "While one might expect similar physical results from inanimate object with similar composition to the tardigrade, we emphasize that entanglement is observed with entire organism that retains its biological functionality post experiment.
In case you were wondering, only one of the three tardigrades — which were harvested from a roof gutter in Denmark no less — survived the ordeal, upon being warmed back up 17 days after the experiment.
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