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To: AntiGuv
And another thing: I do not accept the a priori supposition that a phenomenon which raises causality paradoxes is thereby inherently impossible.

Nor do I. If I am presented with conclusive evidence of causality violation, I will accept it. However, everything I've seen suggests to me that causality is respected in the physical universe.

When I observe that special relativity says that travelling faster than light is equivalent to travelling backwards through time, I am not making any statement about the impossibility of travelling either faster than light or backwards in time. It is merely a mathematical observation about special relativity, and a correct one.

224 posted on 06/17/2004 11:50:55 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist

But our traveller is NOT travelling faster than light. He is travelling at 99% luminal velocity and therefore NOT travelling backwards in time. The transmission is NOT travelling anywhere either. It is not even a transmission in the formal sense of the word. It is an extrapolation of a series of actions upon the entangled particles at the other end via the observation of changes to the entangled particles on your end. The entangled particles have no known physical connection to one another.

Their perceived interaction would presumably exhibit the effects of time dilation to our communicating observers, but that would be all. Wherewhenever the opposite end may be along the inertial frame, at any given point in one frame of reference it would not be at a preceding given point in that frame of reference. Maybe the resulting communications would be distorted in some weird time-dilated fashion, but that should be about it. At least, that's how understand the conjectural phenomenon. Maybe I'm wrong. Who knows?!


225 posted on 06/17/2004 11:58:56 AM PDT by AntiGuv (When the countdown hits zero - something's gonna happen..)
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To: Physicist

I have another link bookmarked somewhere dealing with wormholes and the perceived time at the opposite ends. I'm gonna try to find that one too since it's somewhat relevant to the point at hand. It brings up the twins paradox too. Anyhow, if I recall correctly parts of that further clarify the points that I'm attempting to convey.


228 posted on 06/17/2004 12:01:25 PM PDT by AntiGuv (When the countdown hits zero - something's gonna happen..)
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