Good questions. If you find out the answers you will get two Nobel prizes. Fred Hoyle and others postulated that gravity and the other effects of matter propagate at the speed of light. In order for new matter, which he postulated was created in the vicinity of "near black holes," to interact with the universe it was necessary for the gravity from such matter to reach other objects in the universe. Is the curvature of space time produced by gravitons traveling at the speed of light or it is a property of matter that travels instantaneously? I think most physicists think that gravity travels at the speed of light, but are there any experiments that confirm this? -----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 Chuck Hards Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:39 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Entanglement (was Missing mass) Could the entanglement actually be that the two particles are really the same particle? I once heard a theory that there is only one electron, and it is everywhere in the universe simultaneously, through a similar "spooky" action, or multi-dimensionality or something. Or maybe it was magic? ;) If the missing mass is really due to the universe having weird architecture at the sumatomic level, how does that affect the nuts-and-bolts of our cosmology? --- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
My understanding is if two particles are are entangled and if you do something to one of the pair it IMMEDIATELY (not speed-of-lightly) affects the other. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but that's my impression. This may be what Einstein meant when he referred to "spooky action at a distance." -- Joe
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