On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 08:13:39 +0000 (UTC)
jim bell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I thought of an interesting thought-experiment
... description of experiment...
> But, the information within it wasn'tactually
> readable for one year, until the decrypt key arrived. Can we say
> that this information arrived after one year, and thus at an effective
> speed of 'c'? If it is the former, somehow the idea that information
> can't be transmitted at fasterthan 'c' is invalid. If it's the
> latter, this appears to confirm that limit. Which is it?
I think that in your scenario, the encrypted information was
transmitted at faster than light speed.
> You said:
> "Yep. It either works or not." The 'gotcha' is that whether it
> "works" or not is dependent on your definition of the word, '
OK. In this case, the part of the system that transmits
encrypted information at ftl speed indeed works, but the system
as a whole can't transmit useful information at ftl speed, so I
would say it doesn't 'work', or doesn't have an obvious
practical application.
> works'.
> Does it seem to transmit the data virtually instantly? Yes. Is
> that information available immediately? No. It takes a year to learn
> the contentof that encrypted file. Is the limit of 'c' violated? I
> don't know. What do you think?
Yes, the limit of c is violated, but I don't think that is a
problem, because contrary to 'scientific' dogma, I don't
believe there must be an absolute (haha!) maximum speed that
moving objects can't exceed.
Now, although your hypothetical scenario makes sense, the
question remains : do entangled particles actually behave like
in your scenario?
(I'll do some searching tomorrow, see what comes up)
