well we can't comprehend what complex time would mean, epecially since this would be required to even work out where the thing is or where it would be going. As I say though there are holes shall we say in relitivity, EPR paradoxes have been carried out experimentally and break the laws of relitivity and the predicted gravity waves of general relativity are proving elusive at best.rutger5000 said:
yes, yes, a thousand times YES. They had a great teaching tool, something that inspired me to write my own scifi. I was going to use it as a tool to write, yet also create. The game was a disappointment at the worst level. On the bright side, this is a great video to watch before stargazing, or writing. It leaves you with a wonder that everyone experiences at least once in their life, and this could have fed those answers that people wondered. I'm not much of a coder, but I would love to help make the game Spore wanted to be.John the Gamer said:
I was going for Russells teapot approach. Brining in complex time and energy doesn't explain things we can't explain now. (As far as I know, I'm not that familiar with EPR Paradoxes (Einstein, Plank and someone?))And when a new theory doesn't explain more then the old one, but requires extra assumptions, then it ought to be rejected.cookyy2k said:
The EPR paradoxes are all quantum mechanical effects that break realativity by allowing signals to travel faster than light. The more famed example is quantum entanglement. If you remove 2 electrons from an atom in the same quantum state except for spin from an atom and sperate them as far apasrt as you want if you cause the spin of one to "flip" (turn it's spin from + to - or - to +) the other will instantaneously flip too so that they're always opporsite spin. This information is infinately fast as nomatter the distance it always takes no time for the other to react. This is why the idea of Quantum computing is so tantelising, you can have the signals in your computer being instantaneous.rutger5000 said:
Wait I'm getting confused here. I know what your talking about, and I've heard it before. But it was from my understanding that charges 'communicate' with each other by the use of photons (one charge 'knows' that another charge is there because of photons being ..... (can't finish that sentence)). And that it works similairly for masses and the Higgs Boson. But what particle is traveling at infinite speed to get the message across that one spin has been flipped? It couldn't be a photon, that would violate electrodynamics.cookyy2k said:
Quantum entanglement doesn't quite work like that. First of all, it's not like two random electrons taken from any atom will be entangled. Usually it's one particle with spin 0 that disintergrates into two spin 1/2 particles. These particles are entangled in a state that can not be defined as a tensor product of two different one-particle states (a*up+b*down)*(c*up+d*down), the simplest entangled state the singlet state (1/square root 2)*(up*down-down*up). If it could be defined as a tensor product, that would mean that each of both particle's quantum state is independent of the other one. Since it can't there, the states are linked, entangled if you will. If you'd be able to measure both spins at the same time, they would always return opposite spins. Also, there's nothing that travels inbetween the two particles, it just seems to work like that. How, I can't tell you, since I'm not that quite stellar in quantum physics.rutger5000 said:
Go see http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/0105/0105025v2.pdf for them talking about doubly ionising a helium atom to get spin entangeled electrons:Nocta-Aeterna said:
Their is something that travells beteween the particles, information,one has to "inform" the other to flip it's spin. A consequence of relativity as it stands is no information can travel faster than c, So either QM is not quite right or relativity isn't.Nocta-Aeterna said:
WHEN I GROW UP I'M GOING TO BLOW UP VV CEPHEIbriunj04 said:
As far as I can tell, there's more stuff inside a single atom than in the known universe. I like to look at it this wayAnonymoustache said:
