I asked Dr. Gondolo about entanglement actually contributing mass to the universe. Suppose you have two entangled particles and one ends up in the Andromeda Galaxy and the other here on earth. If both particles still are in their entangled state, you can act on the particle here on earth and instantly affect the other particle in the Andromeda galaxy. Experiments have already been conducted "teleporting" particles in this manner. The information necessary to perform the teleportation at one end or the other can only travel at the speed of light. The question is how are the particles linked and does this linkage contribute to the missing mass/energy. He didn't have any idea but had apparently had thought about the problem. -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+djcolton=piol.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+djcolton=piol.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Michael Carnes Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 2:20 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Missing mass (was: Wolf Creek and Meeting lastnight)
Michael, I think I remember something about this- nature truly does abhor a vacuum- so vacuums are unstable, and matter tends to 'pop' into existence on a quantum scale due to the vacuum energy- or something like that?
It had to do with entanglement (Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance'), virtual particles and all sorts of weird stuff like that. I'm hanging on for dear life as I read it and I probably get more wrong than I get right. But it's still fascinatingly peculiar stuff. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com