Liz, Apparently you don't understand QM very well. A decoherence PRODUCES an entanglement. All particle interactions result in entanglements of the interacting particles on the relations between their particle properties imposed by the conservation laws that govern particle interactions. Decoherences are particle interactions, therefore decoherences produce entanglements.
In general all particles are entangled with all other particles they have interacted with in their interaction histories.... Edgar On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:25:31 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > > On 23 January 2014 12:53, meekerdb <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> By having interacted in the (distant) past. If the universe is a pure >> quantum state then it has zero entropy, which means that all the complexity >> and information we see is a local phenomena due to our being >> quasi-classical, i.e. we are effectively 'coarse graining' the world. From >> this standpoint the positive information we see must be cancelled by >> correlations, negative information, which are ubiquitous. >> >> I see. So in theory the entire universe is full of entangled particle > pairs due to them having once upon a time all lived together in the Big > Bang (to misquote Italo Calvino). Wouldn't those entanglements quickly get > decohered by interaction with the environment, though? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
