On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 05:20:25PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > >I haven't been keeping up on my reading about entangled particles. The > >"spooky" part of 'spooky action at a distance' was supposedly FTL, > >wasn't it? > > Sort of. > > There is another explanation as well which physicists don't like any > better. And that is that electromagnetic waves propagate backward in > time as well as forward in time. This does, however, bind such FTL > communication to occurring on the Einstein light cone from the initial > entanglement event. > > From an engineering perspective; however, both explanations look like > FTL action at a distance. >
<chuckle> I'm recalling a short story by IIRC Asimov in which a chemical moiety was discovered that dissolved .3 sec _before_ water was added. They ganged banks of them until they had a 24-hr predictive instrument. Hilarity ensued. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
