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Originally posted by jonnywhite
reply to post by purplemer
No. Quantum entanglement does not transmit information. This is why it does not break special relativity. Basically, what's "transmitted" is random and cannot be influenced by humans. In fact, NOTHING in the universe influences what's shared between entangled particles. The only way that it could be considered information is if it could be controlled and it cannot be.
If anything meaningful is transmitted in this universe, it's at light speed or slower.
Although one wonders if this universe could somehow interact with other universes. It's probably not possible, but those other universes could probably break our rules routinely.edit on 25-2-2013 by jonnywhite because: (no reason given)
Last May, European researchers reported successfully teleporting photons over a distance of 143 km – a little over 88 miles- between two Canary Islands. When I discussed this finding at the time, one of the caveats I had mentioned about this experiment is that it hadn’t yet been peer-reviewed. Well, now it has. The researchers’ findings have been reviewed and published in Nature. The previous record of 97 kilometers by a team of researchers in China was published in Nature earlier this month.
Originally posted by swan001
Originally posted by MarsSentinel
reply to post by swan001
Light-speed schmite-speed. That's a bogus "limit."
Look, take a string that does not stretch. I'll hold one end, and you take the other end to the moon. Stand there and hang on to it (be cool, allow me the fantasy of a lunar string. I know, it can't _really_ be done, but plz allow it for a sec).
When I tug on my end, the "signal" is instantaneously transmitted to you on the moon because the string doesn't have any stretch. There is no time lag as photons/electrons "travel" through space from me to you. The string tension is transmitted real-time, and you feel the signals at the moment they are initiated.
Now, we have arranged a wacky secret code: One tug for a "1" and two tugs for a "0". Using our special digital-to-analog transciever (the code book with the index of words-to-digits) we can send messages all day with no light speed limited time lag.
Yeah, I thought about that too. Superluminous communication is possible in theory... but in practice? You'd need a rock-solid universe so that the "tug" is not dampened by fluid's inertia.
Originally posted by Kashai
Fluids have a tendency towards being conductive.
Interestingly enough such a consideration could also be relatable to inflation theory with, space/time as the fluid.
Any thoughts?
Originally posted by swan001
Originally posted by Kashai
Fluids have a tendency towards being conductive.
Interestingly enough such a consideration could also be relatable to inflation theory with, space/time as the fluid.
Any thoughts?
That wouldn't be enough. We are talking about a instantaneous transfer - any fluid would just carry the transfer with longer delay and more magnitude loss. That's why sound travels faster in a solid than in a fluid like air or water. Mechanical signal in space would travel at alot less than c. They're not supposed to travel at all in this quasi-vacuum. The Universe would need to be rock-solid. And even then it might not be enough.
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by onequestion
My moto for life is.. the universe is a mirror....