It's a popular belief that quantum entanglement somehow violates relativity. Relativity asks a simple question of QE. "can the effect be used to send information at faster than light speed?" The answer is "NO" and so relativity is NOT violated. It APPEARS that SOMETHING passes between the two photons at faster than light speed, but the photons themselves have to still travel at light speed. It's also possible that our understanding of quantum physics is not complete yet. I'm betting on that. DT ________________________________ From: Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Faster than light I think you and I had a conversation about it that morning, I said it was a measurement error. I didn't know where, but my first guess it they had been Heisenberged. However, I do still think that as we get deeper down into quanta, and further, that Einsteinian physics won't be able to apply. Much like Newtonian physics don't when we are looking at relativistic stuff. Not that anything is proven wrong, but a different set of circumstances call for a different set of rules. Such as quantum entanglement...would such things work over enough distance that relativistic effects give a delay? I don't think there have been lab tests able to do such things yet. And the above is just my uneducated opinion. Not wanting to start any sort of war over this... Dan -- Sent from my phone, please excuse any mispelings or errors. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2012 9:47 am Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Faster than light To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Gotta give Dan credit on this one, he was the first to call "B.S." on the FTL results, as I recall. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:36 AM, daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> wrote:
Oh I expected it. I believe my words were "most likely a calibration error". This qualifies as such an error. The original claim was wrong and is now discredited. But some will never admit it. They are beyond reason. They have their "beliefs"
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