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ZapperZ has a takedown of an article that purports to apply QM to golf; the critique is Quantum Physics And ..... Golf?!

 

He addresses each point but I think he misses one important aspect of the first issue, on entanglement. Creating and maintaining entanglement isn't easy, but more importantly, there's the ol' bugaboo

 

Entanglement might one day allow us to communicate instantaneously across the light-years of distance between stars. But for golfers, entanglement offers a more practical benefit.

 

I have watched golfers tee off and then twist and bend their bodies as they follow the flight of their ball, trying to influence the ball's course through the air. It doesn't work, of course.

 

But if the golfer and the ball could somehow be entangled, then every movement the golfer makes would instantly have an effect on the golf ball. The golfer could literally steer the ball in midair.

 

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The body English would work!

 

No, no, no; a thousand times no. Entanglement does not allow for instantaneous communication and does not allow you to influence distant objects. Entanglement allows you to do one measurement and determine the states of two particles, with one particle possibly being far away — it does not enable you to change that state.

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