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Spooky Physics: Signals Seem to Travel Faster Than Light
LiveScience ^ | Aug 13, 2008 | Charles Q. Choi

Posted on 08/13/2008 12:11:36 PM PDT by decimon

Strange events that Einstein himself called "spooky" might happen at least 10,000 times the speed of light, according to the latest attempt to understand them.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: physics; stringtheory
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To: SunkenCiv

String theory? Here’s a string fact: Let loose of the string and you lose the balloon. String theory is that letting lose of the string looses the balloon. But those two are surely entangled.


21 posted on 08/13/2008 1:00:30 PM PDT by decimon
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To: NonValueAdded
Ah, the Kerry Effect!


22 posted on 08/13/2008 1:19:11 PM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

“....A collision at light speed would be a beetch!...”

Yeah, but who would know! ;-)


23 posted on 08/13/2008 1:33:49 PM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: decimon

One of my favorite physics experiments. If you’ve never been exposed to the double slit experiment, and how introducing an “observer” changes reality itself, you’ll be amazed.

Double Slit Experiment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc


24 posted on 08/13/2008 1:33:57 PM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: decimon

read later


25 posted on 08/13/2008 1:43:37 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: MarineBrat

interesting thanks


26 posted on 08/13/2008 5:55:50 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: Coyoteman; The_Reader_David; snarks_when_bored; Soliton; js1138; steve86; csense
Like, *PING*, dudes.
27 posted on 08/13/2008 9:19:30 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Ping me again when the “signals” transmit information faster than light.


28 posted on 08/13/2008 9:22:43 PM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
Hey, don't blame *me*. I was up at 4:00 AM this morning and it's past my bedtime.

Cheers!

29 posted on 08/13/2008 9:24:42 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: decimon

The link between the particles occurs in a higher, “wrapped” dimension, where the distance is very short. Put two dots separated by a few inches on a sheet of paper and then fold it over so the two dots touch. Takes no time at all to move between the too-dimensional dots in the third dimension. Actually, the “link” between the particles is “always there” in the higher dimension, just like the surface of the sheet of paper is always there. Neither comes into being only when the signal is moving.


30 posted on 08/13/2008 9:29:50 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
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To: decimon
Sub space communication.

Didn't anyone around here watch Star Trek?

Where's Lt. Uhura when you need her?

INTERESTING...

31 posted on 08/13/2008 9:43:40 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (OMG, I lost my tag line.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

It would if you didn’t have your Shields up.


32 posted on 08/13/2008 9:46:12 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (OMG, I lost my tag line.)
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To: decimon

So if a light year is the distance light travels in one year, then a ‘spooky year’ is 10,000 times that distance and Alpha Centauri is only .000437 spooky years (or about 4 spooky hours) away from earth.


33 posted on 08/13/2008 9:55:58 PM PDT by vamoose
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To: steve86
The link between the particles occurs in a higher, “wrapped” dimension, where the distance is very short.

How about the link occurs at less dimensions. Photons, speed of light, from their reference frame time stopped (0 time running), no distance (length contraction maximum). From their reference frame no separation, regardless of what we seem to observe in our 4 dimensional (3 spatial/ 1 temporal) reference frame.

34 posted on 08/13/2008 10:06:52 PM PDT by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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To: decimon

If there’s a balloon involved, then it must be related to:

http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Albrecht/Alb_contents.html

but obviously, it’s related to:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1930299/posts?page=22#22
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967925/posts?page=44#44


35 posted on 08/13/2008 10:14:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv

“It is balloon!”


36 posted on 08/14/2008 8:35:59 AM PDT by onedoug
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