At 6:59 AM 12/17/4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I will upload this stuff to the university website if it is any good or >leads somewhere, also once it is fixed and I can upload stuff again. > >http://www.corn-wall.freeserve.co.uk/home.htm >or more directly > >http://www.corn-wall.freeserve.co.uk/Superluminal_Letter.pdf
The problem with obtaining interference patterns at a distant location appears to me to be at least in part a problem of attenuation. When a member of an entangled pair of photons interacts with matter, especially in a potentially polarizing interaction, the photons lose entanglement. An entangled photon that goes through a polarizing filter, for example, loses any prior entanglements. The attenuation problem is thus two-fold. First, photons are just plain lost to absorbtion. Secondly, of the small percentage that arrives, many have lost entanglement and thus act randomly. For these reasons, it is necessary to do coincidence counting to establish the inerference pattern and this requires an alternative channel. If this alternative channel can communicate faster than light, then no other channel is needed. It appears that using intermediary photon-atom entanglement at Bob's (receiving) location does not circumvent this problem, and in fact complicates things because then even coincidence counting is no longer reliable. Regards, Horace Heffner
