Re: EPR and causality

2004-10-20 Thread Adam Cox
Kyle Mcallister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip]This could be argued from a certain point of view inthe one way FTL sense. But if we allow round trip FTLsignals, we find that according to the relativity ofsimultaneity and thus the equivalence of all inertialreference frames, as given by SR and

Re: EPR and causality

2004-10-19 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Robin van Spaandonk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP In short, causality isn't really violated, it only appears that way to an observer relying on EM signal transmission for his/her information. [snip] This could be argued from a certain point of view in the one way FTL sense. But if we

RE: EPR and causality

2004-10-19 Thread Keith Nagel
Hi Kyle. I think the causality paradoxes you mention will in practice prove to be no impediment to realizing an FTL signaling system. For the purposes of your discussion, consider the sender and receiver to be in the same ref frame. A superluminal signal will appear somewhere between instantly