On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, blah wrote: > >'instantaneously' from -whose- perspective? > > From anyone's perspective.
Not from the photons perspective, from a photons perspective there is -no- time. It is clear from Relativity that as -anything- approaches the speed of light it's mass grows larger (photons have -no- rest mass so 0 can't get any bigger than 0) and time -slows to zero-. > A signal carries information. > You can't use quantum mechanics to propagate a signal faster than light. Then explain two entangled photons and how they behave. > If you think otherwise, allow me to refer you to the last chapter in > "Quantum Mechanics", L. Schiff, where you will find the commutation > relations for electromagnetic fields. I'm familiar with it, however that is taken from the perspective of the external observer, not the photon. Now, do the math -from the perspective of a the photons-. Let me ask you again: - How big is the cosmos to a photon? - How does time pass to a photon? > > Only so long as there are -not- relativistic effects, which -do- happen > > -any- time a photon is involved. > > Don't be ridiculous. Relativistic quantum mechanics is not even a new > discipline. I am -not- saying that it is -new-. I -am- saying that QM and Relativity have -not- been -completely combined- and that until that happens we won't and can't understand what is going on. In particular I -am- saying that there is a fundamental error being made in experiments like the 2-slit and Entangled Photons, that error is that only -one- perspective is being looked at, the non-relativistic perspective of the mechanism, and that the -relativiistic perspective of the photon is being completely ignored-. You are throwing information away -a priori-. That to understand these results the experimenter -must- look at the perspective of all participants in the experiment, especially those who experience relativistic effects. And a photon is -always- relativistic. Reality is -observer dependent-, the mechanism observes the photon, the photon observes the mechanism. They are -not- in the same time-space frame. The mechanism behaves in its classical time-space frame and the photon behaves in its relativistic time-spacef frame (the only one it has, excepting slowing effects in BEC's). It's no small wonder the results make little sense. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------