The practical application here is that the ability to maintain entanglement for a long period of time is key to building real quantum information networks.

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They hope to see the quantum limit for the first time, and to find out whether electrons really do evade it.

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Another potential quantum content situation, both true and untrue at the same time.

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Indeed, theorists working on loop quantum gravity think that matter itself is merely the result of twisting and braiding ribbons of space-time.

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Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, one of the central tenets of quantum mechanics, maintains that you cannot pin down all the physical properties of a particle at the same time.

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