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To: Mean Daddy
" Basically, you split a molecule (or atom, I can never recall), and regardless of their relationship to one another, they will behave exactly alike. I believe it's involved in super string theory."

Yup. I've read 'stuff' like that too. Basically, they're traveling away from each other at about 9/10's the speed of light and if you influence one of the particles (cause it to flip with magnets) the other will do the same. Now, the question is, "what sort of communication is going on between these two" and whatever it is, it has to be traveling well above the speed of light.

There's an interesting article in this months Discover magazine by John Wheeler, titled, "Does The Universe Exist If We're Not Looking?" It deals with human conciousness influencing the future as well as the past. Interesting reading.

50 posted on 05/12/2002 5:45:31 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Wheeler's article in Discover has a fascinating thought experiment.

A photon leaving a 10 billion light-year distant quasar has two possible (diverging and then converging) paths around a gravitational lens and a two paths are equally possible.

"Classical" quantum mechanics says that neither path is chosen until the probabilities are collapsed by observation.
Our act of observing causes the photon to "have taken" one path or another.

This is not conjecture or speculation, but well confirmed.

53 posted on 05/12/2002 6:14:18 AM PDT by edwin hubble
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To: blam
Good Lord, with Algore coming back from the dead, don't I have Enough to worry about?
57 posted on 05/12/2002 7:24:41 AM PDT by bloggerjohn
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To: blam
They've actually shown recently that you can cause a sort of "teleportation" regardless of distance, in what appears to be an instantaneous transfer of properties between particles.
73 posted on 05/12/2002 12:36:37 PM PDT by TheLurkerX
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To: blam
they're traveling away from each other at about 9/10's the speed of light and if you influence one of the particles (cause it to flip with magnets) the other will do the same. Now, the question is, "what sort of communication is going on between these two" and whatever it is, it has to be traveling well above the speed of light.

I would think that if the laws of three (four incluing time) dimensional physics are being violated, the first place to look is for another dimension. I couldn't guess the way to test for one, but it seems that multiple unsensed dimensions are going to be the key to the next revolutionary breakthroughs in physics (/cosmology).

It will be proof of these other dimentions that will bring light to many of the unanswered questions we have now. Of course that will only start the next round of questions. Maybe if all goes right we can get to interstellar travel in 10-20 generations.

The way I have come to look at it all recently is that we don't know squat, at least as to the fundamental nature of the uni(multi)verse.

76 posted on 05/12/2002 4:08:35 PM PDT by StriperSniper
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