It's always nice to experimentally test theories whose truth is generally accepted beyond question, for occasional surprises do occur. Nevertheless, all the experimental results thus far are consistent with quantum theory. There is no way, within quantum theory, to communicate faster than light. -- Gene ________________________________ From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> To: Eugene Salamin <gene_salamin@yahoo.com> Cc: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2009 4:43:57 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Plenty of Room at the Bottom, Part II People still seem to be running experiments to test non-locality, "non-causality", etc.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments At 04:18 PM 8/9/2009, Eugene Salamin wrote:
From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2009 3:54:05 PM Subject: [math-fun] Plenty of Room at the Bottom, Part II
Perhaps the time has come for physicists to really test the potential ability of quantum theory's "spooky action at a distance" to beat the speed of light. I would imagine that one of the large financial trading firms (Goldman Sachs ?) could easily afford to fund such a test. Perhaps they already did... ??
________________________________ Quantum mechanics cannot beat the speed of light. There is no action at a distance.
-- Gene