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Charm, quark, colors, time crystals, holographs.. And now, magic. Don't worry Einstein, no spooky action at a distance here, it's just magical.

> The more non-Clifford gates you need to produce a quantum state, the more magical that state is. The group found that the particles were highly magical. ..They showed that magic gave space its springiness. Magic, in other words, is connected to space’s ability to bend.

At some point these physicists crossed over into a very specialized form of poetry, a game of language.

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Don't forget snap, crackle and pop, and quantum teleportation.

Physicists get a failing grade for naming things.

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I can sort of appreciate these shenanigans as short-lived common room humor, but I find it obnoxious to put it in the official terminology.

It's bad enough all the corporations trying to steal perfectly active words for their brand names or products.

Ghosts are also a thing in quantum field theory
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we had "god particle" too …
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