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"Andrew Lias" |
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01 Sep 2004 05:13:05 PM |
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Re: Sci-Fi Absurdities |
Gregory Gadow wrote:
Andrew Lias wrote:
The bottom line is that entanglement doesn't violate the
restriction
that matter and information can not be transmitted faster than the
speed of light. Sie random state changes can not be used to convey
information, Einstein still gets the last laugh, alas.
I never said it was yet *practical* :-P
I'm not beating up on your Gregory. Honest.
The question, however, isn't one of practicality but one of
possibility. Quantum entangled pairs do NOT let you transmit
*information* faster than the speed of light. Period.
It's not a technological limitation where we just need some
sufficiently clever person to figure out how to de-randomize the data.
The limitation is fundamental to the nature of QM.
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Andrew Lias
http://andrewlias.blogspot.com
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: Sci-Fi Absurdities |
02 Sep 2004 08:21:31 AM |
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Andrew Lias wrote:
Gregory Gadow wrote:
Andrew Lias wrote:
The bottom line is that entanglement doesn't violate the
restriction
that matter and information can not be transmitted faster than the
speed of light. Sie random state changes can not be used to convey
information, Einstein still gets the last laugh, alas.
I never said it was yet *practical* :-P
I'm not beating up on your Gregory. Honest.
The question, however, isn't one of practicality but one of
possibility. Quantum entangled pairs do NOT let you transmit
*information* faster than the speed of light. Period.
It's not a technological limitation where we just need some
sufficiently clever person to figure out how to de-randomize the data.
The limitation is fundamental to the nature of QM.
As we understand it at the moment. Just one more Einstein could change all
that (and does, in a science fiction setting that I'm working on at the
moment.)
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"The accumulation of all power, legislative,
executive, and judicial in the same hands...
may justly be pronounced the very definition
of tyranny."
- James Madison, _The Federalist_, #47
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: Sci-Fi Absurdities |
02 Sep 2004 08:42:39 AM |
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On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 06:21:31 -0700 in alt.atheism, Gregory Gadow
(Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
Andrew Lias wrote:
Gregory Gadow wrote:
Andrew Lias wrote:
The bottom line is that entanglement doesn't violate the
restriction
that matter and information can not be transmitted faster than the
speed of light. Sie random state changes can not be used to convey
information, Einstein still gets the last laugh, alas.
I never said it was yet *practical* :-P
I'm not beating up on your Gregory. Honest.
The question, however, isn't one of practicality but one of
possibility. Quantum entangled pairs do NOT let you transmit
*information* faster than the speed of light. Period.
It's not a technological limitation where we just need some
sufficiently clever person to figure out how to de-randomize the data.
The limitation is fundamental to the nature of QM.
As we understand it at the moment. Just one more Einstein could change all
that (and does, in a science fiction setting that I'm working on at the
moment.)
You want to try Stephen Baxter, in his book of short stories "Traces".
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006498140/qid=1094132220
The basis of one of the stories is that there's a loophole that allows
instant transmission of info, but we steal the technology, not invent
it. Worth a read, as if the first story in the book that murders the
strong anthropic principle!
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