If your door bell is in fact quantum entangled with another door bell somewhere in the universe (and most probably nearby, like somewhere in your city), then anything you do to prevent your door bell from sounding at 3:00 in the morning, will guarantee that the entangled door bell across town will sound at 3:00 in the morning, thus becoming a nuisance to someone else – possibly even a near neighbor, or a friend. And conversely, when your door bell woke you up, you could have been sure that the entangled bell was not waking somebody up. But the whole theory also states that you could never know or find out about it.
Pet demons can be fun, but they tend to cause trouble if you don’t train them carefully. I recommend the book Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore. Not sure if it’s in print any more, but public libraries might have it or know of one that does. This is the tale of a young man who accidentally catches himself a demon, and then spends the next 75 or so years trying to get rid of it.
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No. If your doorbell is quantum entangled with another doorbell, then at some point they must have been one doorbell that split into two doorbells. If you can do this, you can just stay home and work in your pajamas selling doorbells by mail order.
Bad business strategy. Pairs of entangled doorbells must necessarily have opposite charge. That is, if you can sell one doorbell for, say, $30, then someone else (who necessarily can’t be you) must take a $30 loss on the doorbell he sells. You can’t predict which of you will gain $30 and which will lost $30 on each doorbell sale until you actually sell it. In the long run, you just break even.
It could be different is you manufacture and sell your doorbells near a black hole. Every once in a while, you would expect to sell the +$30 doorbell someone relatively far away, while the -$30 doorbell falls into the black hole (thus, eventually evaporating the re-sale value of the black hole). This is a rare event, though, so it takes a long time.
(And a serious question: I never quite understood why it’s always the +$30 doorbell that escapes and the -$30 doorbell that falls in.)
ETA: Notice also, when you sell a doorbell, one of takes a $30 profit and one takes a $30 loss, at the same instantaneous time. Thus, you have a spooky transfer of wealth at a distance action.
No, no – quantum entanglement applies to physics, not economics. The OP could sit around at home in his (or her) jammies running a highly profitable mail order business on doorbells for which his inventory cost was zero.
The real problem is that all the doorbells he sold would, due to quantum entanglement, appear to be haunted by demons, much like the OP’s own. Of course the customers don’t have to know this, but the return rate would likely be quite high. I suggest the OP proactively deal with this by establishing a no-returns policy and publishing a FAQ on his mail order website in which unexplained ringing of the doorbells is blamed on the wiring.
The best answer I can give as a non-expert is that this attempt to explain Hawking radiation intuitively is, in fact, now considered neither an accurate description of the physical process nor even a reasonable analogy – even though it was once advanced by Hawking himself (in the Cambridge lectures, and possibly elsewhere too). IOW, the black hole removing a virtual anti-particle from the universe thus allowing the partner virtual particle to become a real particle is not an accurate depiction of what actually happens.
There’s a mid nineties BMW across the street with an alarm that goes off everytime a taxi pulls up and radios its base. The car rarely starts in the winter so the owner quite often uses a cab to get to work at 5am. These two facts combined are really annoying!
Schroedinger’s doorbell? The doorbell is buzzing, and not buzzing.
As long as you don’t open the door.
My key fob has a button to set off my alarm.
I don’t know how it isn’t obvious to you that your house is haunted. Ghosts love die-hard skeptics. They’re a lot like cats that way.
So replace it already!
It’s long overdue, and shouldn’t coat more than $10.
The wiring is that old, too, and might break; be careful.
Isn’t there a violation of Bell’s Theorem in there somewhere?
No, again, I must refute you. Bell’s Theorem deals only with the question of local hidden variables. Specifically, whether local hidden variables can explain why a doorbell φ or a phone bell β will always ring just when you are sitting down to dinner δ with a nice glass of wine ω.
According to the original proposition of the Bell inequalities, there should be no greater chance of such bells ringing when you are sitting down to dinner than at any other time, but modern physics has demonstrated outrageous violations of the Bell inequalities, thus establishing incontrovertible quantum entanglements between my phone and door bells and my dinner.
“555-b e n t”?
This gets even more intriguing, as it is my BMW alarm that randomly goes off . . .
So: one BMW has knowledge of my BMW, but quantum entanglement can’t identify how they communicate with one another over long distances?
Given that the doorbell and car alarm seem to be entangled in some way, is a doorbell in Bavaria mysteriously ringing?
The vast majority of the time, both fall back in. Occasionally, one escapes, and that one always has positive energy, because one with negative energy, by definition, cannot escape. The key here is that it’s the total energy that’s relevant, including the gravitational potential energy, and so both particles start off pretty deep in debt by virtue of being right next to a black hole. For one to escape, then, the other must be extraordinarily deep in debt, which is why Hawking radiation is so rare.
It’s not like I came up with that number.
The last time someone attempted to ring it, the button stuck, but didn’t ring successfully; someone came to the door anyway, and the button stayed in position until a short (possibly moisture-related) occurred at 3 a.m.