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To: Physicist
"Quantum mechanics does not permit FTL communication."

Mmm. More precisely, quantum mechanics + relativity + causality does not permit FTL communication. If you drop causality, then we're home free.

148 posted on 07/16/2002 1:31:43 PM PDT by OBAFGKM
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To: OBAFGKM
My understanding is FTL effects need not violate causality. It could be a question of bounded input - bounded output (BIBO) stability in a system of FTL effects.
150 posted on 07/16/2002 1:46:40 PM PDT by apochromat
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