John Schoenfeld:

Bilge wrote:

Bzzzzt. There is no theoretical basis for superluminal

As I suggested in my previous post, some QFT models do not require

Which for some reason, you failed to specify in detail.

alegbra of the causal completion of space-time to be equivalent to

algebra of space-time. This means that under certain circumstances
Lorentzian maximum frame velocity does not apply. If one only

Relativity, this result is underivable.

There's nothing I find less illuminating than a lot of words that
mean nothingm either because the words are nothing but strings of
soundbites or because the wors are taken out any context that
makes them meaningful. The ``algebra of the causal completion of
space-time'' is: [Insert mathematical definition of the algebra

If you think the algebra of spacetime is something other than the
poincare algebra then you think the algebra is: [Insert mathematical
definition of the algebra here].

After doing that, explain the circumstances arising from the
inequivalence of those two algebras lead to the results you assert.

responses are based on the information you supply and what you've

so far looks like jargon and soundbites. If you expect a response

something other than the jargon and soundbites supplied, supply

other than jargon and soundbites. I'm not obligated to become a

just to refute the misuse of terminology.

The real question is why you (and others) find it more

to try and ``overthrow'' relativity at the level that relativity
is simply a fact rather than put the same effort into studying
enough basic physics to understand what the real questions are.

You are now moving the argument into a personal one and attacking

motivations instead of the content of my argument. If my argument

You argument is content free precisely for the reasons I stated.
You use a lot of jargon that doesn't mean anything. Spend the time
studying physics first.

wrong, so be it. But perhaps you would be better served elaborating

your "superluminal anything is impossible" argument by explaining

in the context of Local Quantum theory this result is not always

(I recommend you familiarize yourself with Haag-Kastler.)

Which axiom do you contend supports you?

There is a lot of interesting physics in every subdiscipline, yet
the only ones that are constantly an issue on this newsgroup are
the ones that were answered long ago.

This is a red herring which you are raising to divert the argument.

I'm wrong then explain why this result does not always hold in

theory.

You are wrong because the result does hold in quantum field

What I've said is not a red herring because you have made an

inference for exactly the reasons I've stated. You are connecting

bites to avoid studying physics and have no idea what those

mean. Your reference to ``priests'' indicates your motivations to
``overthrow'' relativity in spite of the fact that the very jargon

are using comes from members of the ``clergy.''

[...]

I know what you outlined. What you outlined is wrong.

If you cannot show why, your argument is only opinion.

That's okay with me. What I'm aruing with is your opinion and I

intention of trying to figure out every possible way you could have
misunderstood that upon which you've based your opinion. Once you

something specific, I'll address it specifically. The fact that, in
another response, you say that you are unfamiliar with shannon's

only tells you me have no idea what information means. It's rather
difficult to know anything about information theory without being

with the work done by the person who invented information theory.

[...]

"Comparing datasets" is a common red herring raised by priests,

such comparisons are unnecessary. The receiver always assumes

information is valid at the physical layer (otherwise it would

constrained by c/2). Half-duplex information receivers like

televisions

and radios are perfect examples of this.

I suggest, ``Kolmogorov Complexity and It's Applications,''
vitanyi and li, ``The Physics of Information,'' ed. Zurek, W.,
and john preskill's web site at caltech on quantum information.

I am very familiar with the work of Kolmogorov,

Which in what way obviates the textbook I suggested?

and it does not help your argument at all.

I agree that what you know about the work of kolmogorov doesn't
help my argument, but I never suggested that it did or that what
you knew about kolmogorov's work was relevent. In fact, kolmogorov's
work isn't relevant to the reason I suggested that textbook.

Instead it is the basis of my argument, and that is that the

zero-one law dictates superluminal information exchange can occur

a tail event.

The basis of your argument is flawed and the textbook I suggested
might even help illuminate you, since the book is concerned with
complexity and information theory. Kolmogorov's zero-one law only
states that a tail event has a probability of either zero or one of
occurring. It says nothing about what defines an event in quantum
field theory. Your entire argument hinges on erroneously equivocating
tail events in a distribution, field amplitudes and information.

I also see you have omitted the links which I previously posted. I

restored them below.

That's no surprise. Crackpots always do that, as if ``restoring''
the links somehow strengthens an argument that isn't supported
by the links. The links don't support anything you've said. The
fact that have given no argument explaining why those links support
what you've said, I have no way of determining why you think those
articles support your argument. I'll leave the links if it makes
you feel better, despite being irrelevant.

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/4/7/8/1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/781199.stm
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/07/20/speed.of.light.ap/

Also, observations in astronomy show an apparant superluminal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superluminal_motion

Just in case english isn't your first language, the word

means ``not necessarily as it appears'', which in this context means
something that it looks like superluminal motion, but really isn't
superluminal motion.