Posted on 12/08/2005 6:59:01 PM PST by sourcery
Gee, faster than light communication is possible.
This "spooky action at a distance" stuff is fascinating.
They won't jump across room they will simultaneously be there and not there!
one quantum spin (i.e., one quantum bit) flipped for the atoms at the site L of one ensemble, invariably none flipped at the site R of the other ensemble
We flipped a switch over here and nothing happened over there.
and when one spin flipped at R, invariably none flipped at L
And when we flipped a switch over there nothing happened over here.
both possibilities existed simultaneously.
We all discussed it over several drinks.
Maybe there is a part of space that is dimensionless? A zeroth dimension? maybe all points meet at that "point" (or would that be pointlessness? ha ha)
Anyway, Imagine if you could sit in a laboratory, and entangle parts of a submarine or an aircraft or runway thousands of miles away. Wouldn't have to move from your lab to take out your enemies' resources. Like the Tantalus field on the old Star Trek. That one where the 40 year old girl was going after Cap'n Kirk. The leading men/women form those old shows seem so "mature" now. ha
No, Barbara Luna was 28 (give or take a year) when she did Star Trek. Not forty. Though I guess maybe Marlena Moreau was supposed to be forty, not that she looked it.
My point being, Roger Ebert said that teenagers used to sneak into the movies to watch adults have sex, and now adults go to the movies to watch teenagers have sex. Just how times have changed. What about this one---
Remember the ambassador int he box- the medusa thing that drove spock nuts? Wow, Dr. Pulaski was H-O-T But check her out on STNG- oh man. Am I getting old or what... Oh, wait the drill thrall girl-- she's probably in a nursing home, right? sheeesh
This entanglement stuff explains the state of my house, beautifully.
Not according to what I have read. Entangled particles cannot be used to transmit messages faster than the speed of light. To do so would violate relativity theory.
Reality is elusive.
Thanks, this is very much in my current area of interest.
thought so, but will change the world once 'it' works.
Current implementations require extreme cooling so that heat energy doesn't decohere quantum states. Photonic systems don't suffer from this but there is the problem that photons like to move at C and only C so they are difficult to localize. It's going to be a while before this shows up in anybody's PC.
regards,
The "bad" Kirk had a pretty good thing going there, eh?
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"Anyway, Imagine if you could sit in a laboratory, and entangle parts of a submarine or an aircraft or runway thousands of miles away. Wouldn't have to move from your lab to take out your enemies' resources. Like the Tantalus field on the old Star Trek. That one where the 40 year old girl was going after Cap'n Kirk. The leading men/women form those old shows seem so "mature" now. ha"
Would you all have responded this way when Newton demonstrated that the same force that made the apple fall made the earth circle the sun? I think not!
Go to your rooms!
*lol*
Just silly enough for a beer drinker. ;OD
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