On 11/18/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
"The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline"
carl
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