Found.Phys. 27 (1997) 559
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Verzonden: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 05:59
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Onderwerp: Re: Plaga
From the initial page from the included link to the archive: "I'm no
physicist so I don't know for sure that these implications would
follow,
but I am very doubtful that interworld communication is consistent
with the
basics of quantum mechanics. The fact that this paper has not
been
published in peer reviewed journals in 7 years indicates that it
probably
doesn't work."
Back when I wasn't long in the field of video production I was well aware
of the insistance and belief of TV engineers that a single tube industrial
color video camera was not broadcast quality. Working in cable, where they
were used for cablecast, I had plenty of opportunity to look at picture
quality, etc. and came to the conclusion that it shouldn't be a problem. 2
years later I got the chance to prove it when a local news station sent a crew
out to cover something that I was shooting. In the end I gave them
the editied sequence I had shot (now down two generations), and they
took it and edited it into their story, which would have taken it down a
third. Then they broadcasted it over the air. I taped it off-air and the
results were conclusive - I was right, all the nay-sayer engineers were
wrong. A $40,000 Ikegami vs a $1,500 Panasonic and it was a tie
except for one slight red bleed from a costume due to the Saticon tube bias
toward red in the camera I used, which could have been color corrected with a
time base corrector, but whoever dubbed the tape left the red level a little
too hot.
My point being that that was the first in a long line of "you can'ts" that
I've faced which I eventually proved, "you can". Thus I have a dim view of
such positions when they aren't backed up with experiments that prove so
*conclusively*. As long as the possibility exists, I keep an open mind.
Besides, if unbriddled skepticism was right all the time, we wouldn't be using
computers, flying, or even have phones of any kind, just to name a few
things.
----- Original Message -----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: everything-list@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: Plaga
Date: Tue, 24
May 2005 17:51:13 -0700 (PDT)
>
> We discussed Plaga's paper
back in June, 2002. I reported some skeptical
> analysis of the paper
by John Baez of sci.physics fame, at
>
http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m3686.html . I also gave some
>
reasons of my own why arbitrary inter-universe quantum communication
>
should be impossible.
>
> Hal Finney
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