Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-24 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message > From: Mauro Lacy > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Sent: Sun, April 24, 2011 10:17:42 AM > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion > > On 04/24/2011 11:06 AM, Michele Comitini wrote: > > Can quantum entanglement be used for syncronizing? &g

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion, quantum reloaded

2011-04-24 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/24/2011 03:56 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: - Original Message From: Mauro Lacy To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, April 24, 2011 1:56:43 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion, quantum reloaded On 04/24/2011 02:33 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: If experiment does

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion, quantum reloaded

2011-04-24 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message > From: Mauro Lacy > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Sent: Sun, April 24, 2011 1:56:43 PM > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion, quantum reloaded > > On 04/24/2011 02:33 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: > > If experiment does detect a differe

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion, quantum reloaded

2011-04-24 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/24/2011 02:33 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: If experiment does detect a difference in the arrival times won't the relativits just say it results from spatial contraction? Maybe, but, who cares. The experiment is not trying to refute relativity theory, but to detect absolute motion. If the

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion, quantum reloaded

2011-04-24 Thread Harry Veeder
If experiment does detect a difference in the arrival times won't the relativits just say it results from spatial contraction? Harry - Original Message > From: Mauro Lacy > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Sent: Sun, April 24, 2011 1:07:34 PM > Subject: [Vo]:Detectin

[Vo]:Detecting absolute motion, quantum reloaded

2011-04-24 Thread Mauro Lacy
I think we nailed it down? Here then goes the "quantum reloaded" version of the same experiment. An experiment devised to detect absolute motion. The experiment is very simple in theory, although it can be relatively complex to realize it in practice: To measure the time a ray of light takes

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-24 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message > From: Craig Haynie > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Sent: Sun, April 24, 2011 7:07:08 AM > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion > > where their respective clock hands happen to pointing after they have > reached > > the separation

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-24 Thread francis
Michele, Great Question! I have often considered that entangled particles might be spatially pivoting from a locked time co-ordinate - inherently synchronized but it never occurred to me to use it for this purpose. Regards Fran

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-24 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/24/2011 11:06 AM, Michele Comitini wrote: Can quantum entanglement be used for syncronizing? That was what I was thinking. It sounds feasible. A non-local clock can be devised, based on the properties of quantum entanglement: A remote entangled particle will instantaneously inform a

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-24 Thread Michele Comitini
Can quantum entanglement be used for syncronizing? 2011/4/24 Mauro Lacy : > On 04/23/2011 10:12 PM, jwin...@cyllene.uwa.edu.au wrote: > > On 4/24/2011 6:13 AM, Mauro Lacy wrote: > > > On 04/23/2011 06:57 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > > Perhaps you have overlooked a key point. How do you prop

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-24 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/23/2011 10:12 PM, jwin...@cyllene.uwa.edu.au wrote: On 4/24/2011 6:13 AM, Mauro Lacy wrote: On 04/23/2011 06:57 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Perhaps you have overlooked a key point. How do you propose to synchronize clocks which are spatially separated? That's not a trivial

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-24 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 04/23/2011 06:13 PM, Mauro Lacy wrote: > On 04/23/2011 06:57 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: >> Perhaps you have overlooked a key point. How do you propose to >> synchronize clocks which are spatially separated? That's not a trivial >> question. >> > > ? You can synchronize them together,

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-24 Thread francis
yro is enhanced by having a long optical fiber coiled for compactness, but in which the Sagnac effect is multiplied according to the number of turns. [ /wiki snip.] Fran See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagnac_effect and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_laser_gyroscope Re: [Vo]:Det

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-24 Thread Craig Haynie
where their respective clock hands happen to pointing after they have reached > the separation distance and A yells out to B . When B hears A he will know he > has to turn back his clock the amount of time it took A's voice to reach > him (the separation distance divided by the speed of sound).

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-24 Thread David Jonsson
I have been thinking a lot on how to differentiate between rotational motion where the curvature or rotation radius is very high and translational motion. In the case when gravity balances centrifugal acceleration it becomes hard. There are methods involving thermal motion. I have mentioned these e

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Harry Veeder
Mauro wrote: > I was just trying to emphasize, perhaps not a very good or > clear way, that there are no relative velocities of the two clocks involved. > >    What matters is that when the clocks are together and are both at rest in the same frame they are both ticking at the same rate. T

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Terry Blanton
There can be no absolute clock synchronization. Even the best of clocks, cesium beam standards, depend on the transition of a particular electron's orbit. The same space variations which are to be measured will vary the transition of the electron's time transition and the result differential will

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread jwinter
On 4/24/2011 6:13 AM, Mauro Lacy wrote: On 04/23/2011 06:57 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Perhaps you have overlooked a key point. How do you propose to synchronize clocks which are spatially separated? That's not a trivial question. Indeed, as Stephen rightly points out, that is the very ke

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/23/2011 06:59 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 04/23/2011 05:17 PM, Mauro Lacy wrote: On 04/23/2011 05:05 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: ... In short, according to Lorentz's theory, the aether can't be detected through velocity measurements. There is an "aether frame" but the

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/23/2011 06:57 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Perhaps you have overlooked a key point. How do you propose to synchronize clocks which are spatially separated? That's not a trivial question. ? You can synchronize them together, and separate them afterwards? On 04/23/2011 04:35 PM,

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 04/23/2011 05:17 PM, Mauro Lacy wrote: > On 04/23/2011 05:05 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: >> ... >> In short, according to Lorentz's theory, the aether can't be detected >> through velocity measurements. There is an "aether frame" but there is >> no way to tell how fast you're moving relati

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Perhaps you have overlooked a key point. How do you propose to synchronize clocks which are spatially separated? That's not a trivial question. On 04/23/2011 04:35 PM, Mauro Lacy wrote: > On 04/23/2011 05:05 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > >> What you may not be aware of is that the final

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/23/2011 05:05 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: ... In short, according to Lorentz's theory, the aether can't be detected through velocity measurements. There is an "aether frame" but there is no way to tell how fast you're moving relative to it. Again: I'm not proposing taking any velo

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/23/2011 05:35 PM, Mauro Lacy wrote: On 04/23/2011 05:05 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 04/23/2011 10:14 AM, Mauro Lacy wrote: That way, absolute motion will be detected in the direction at which the time delta is greater. The light ray will take longer, travelling at a fixed

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/23/2011 01:53 PM, francis wrote: On Sat 4/23/11 Mauro wrote [SNIP] The proposed explanation is as follows: 1) Light is not "pushed" by the emitting device. It leaves the emitting device as a perturbation in the medium, and propagates at a fixed velocity. That velocity is dependant only o

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/23/2011 05:05 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 04/23/2011 10:14 AM, Mauro Lacy wrote: That way, absolute motion will be detected in the direction at which the time delta is greater. The light ray will take longer, travelling at a fixed velocity, to reach the receiving device, because

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 04/23/2011 10:14 AM, Mauro Lacy wrote: > That way, absolute motion will be detected in the direction at which > the time delta is greater. The light ray will take longer, travelling > at a fixed velocity, to reach the receiving device, because the travel > distance in that direction will be gr

[Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread francis
On Sat 4/23/11 Mauro wrote [SNIP] The proposed explanation is as follows: 1) Light is not "pushed" by the emitting device. It leaves the emitting device as a perturbation in the medium, and propagates at a fixed velocity. That velocity is dependant only on the medium, and is c when the medium is

Re: [Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/23/2011 11:14 AM, Mauro Lacy wrote: An experiment devised to detect absolute motion. Like I said in the past, the experiment is very simple in principle: To measure the time a ray of light takes to go from one direction to another, one-way. That is, without the return time. The total trav

[Vo]:Detecting absolute motion

2011-04-23 Thread Mauro Lacy
An experiment devised to detect absolute motion. Like I said in the past, the experiment is very simple in principle: To measure the time a ray of light takes to go from one direction to another, one-way. That is, without the return time. The total travel time is usually known as round-trip-t