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MARRIAGE SUPPLANTED BY QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT IN NEW YORK
Manhattan Couples to Be Wed by Law of Nature... Simple Lab Procedure Circumvents State and Church Regulations... Nonprofit AC Institute to Offer Nuptial Entanglements Free of Charge this Summer...
April 29, 2011 - A quantum phenomenon found to wed people more elementally than any known marriage ritual will be accessible to the public for the first time in New York next month. Technically known as entanglement, the phenomenon has been extensively studied in laboratories keen to exploit it for next-generation computers and military cryptography, but practical applications have eluded scientists until today.
"There's been too little interdisciplinary thinking in quantum physics," says experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats, who has pioneered nuptial entanglement at the AC Institute. "There's been too little cross-talk. The language of mathematics is not obviously romantic, and the laws governing marriage are completely irrational."
Yet the connubial potential of quantum entanglement was clear to Mr. Keats, whose interdisciplinary efforts have recently included the creation of a photosynthetic restaurant for plants. "Entanglement conjoins subatomic particles such as electrons," Mr. Keats explains. In other words, when two or more particles are entangled, they behave as if they were one and the same, and any change to one instantaneously and identically changes those entangled with it even if they're a universe apart. "Just try doing that in a marriage contract," Mr. Keats says.
The process of nuptial entanglement developed by Mr. Keats entails no contractual paperwork. There are no restrictions on who may be entangled to whom. The process is unsupervised, no appointment needed. People wishing to become entangled need merely show up at the AC Institute in Chelsea, where the entangling apparatus is operational seven days a week.
The equipment is situated in a sunny window. Exposed to the full spectrum of solar radiation, a nonlinear crystal entangles photons. Pairs of entangled photons are divided by prisms, and the photoelectric effect translates their entangled state to the bodies of a couple who wish to be united. "It's even easier than getting an x-ray," asserts Mr. Keats, who is now happily entangled with his wife. (((Gosh, that's nice to hear.)))
Mr. Keats acknowledges that the entanglement process may not appeal to everybody. "Some people actually like Wagner's Bridal Chorus," he concedes. Moreover those who get entangled will have to take their entanglement on faith, as any attempt to measure a quantum system disentangles it. "A quantum marriage will literally be broken up by skepticism about it," Mr. Keats explains. "Nuptial entanglement is a state of belief. In that respect, quantum physics is more romantic than the whole lot of Shakespeare's sonnets."
IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
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Entanglements will be available from May 12 to June 18 2011 in the South Alcove of the AC Institute, a nonprofit arts organization located at 547 W. 27th St, 6th Floor, in New York City. More information: http://www.artcurrents.org
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Acclaimed as "a poet of ideas" by the New Yorker, Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher and artist based in the United States and Italy. Recently he opened a photosynthetic restaurant for plants at the Crocker Art Museum. He has also launched a space agency for potatoes at California State University, exhibited extraterrestrial abstract art at the Judah L Magnes Museum, presented the nation's first ouija voting booth at the Berkeley Art Museum, and attempted to genetically engineer God in collaboration with scientists at the University of California. His projects have been documented by PBS, NPR, and the BBC World Service, garnering favorable attention in periodicals ranging from The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle, to Nature and New Scientist, to Flash Art and ArtUS. Additionally, Keats serves as the art critic for San Francisco Magazine and as a columnist for Wired Magazine. He's the author of two novels and an American Library
Association award-winning collection of stories published by Random House, as well as a book about the co-evolution of language and science, "Virtual Words", published by Oxford University Press last October. Since graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1994, he has been a visiting artist at California and Montana State Universities, and a guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as the recipient of Yaddo and MacDowell fellowships. He is represented by Modernism Gallery in San Francisco. He can be contacted at [email protected]
