Re: The Observational Collapse of Einsteinian Physics

On 02 Sep 2003 14:04:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dnehebretic02)
wrote or quoted :

>Experiments have shown that the velocity of the coupling of the
>polarization angle (the quantum number of the photon) of "paired photons"
>occurs at a velocity of at least four times the velocity of light and perhaps
>at an infinite velocity.

I don't think anyone has even conceived of a way this could be used to
transmit a signal.  The closest I have heard is using it to encrypt
and  decrypt a signal.

I found something on the web at
http://phys.educ.ksu.edu/vqm/html/doubleslit/index.html

It shows a simulation of the double slit experiment.

What the newbie needs is a way to create some quantum intuition, just
showing HOW things behave, without trying to explain why, like that
double slit simulation.

Then perhaps with familiarity we could just start taking these
behaviours as normal, rather than puzzling why they are different that
macro behaviours, much the way a baby discovers and accepts the laws
of physics at a macro level without astonishment.

The books I have read get so involved in the explanations without
first clarifying the actual observed behaviour.

Eventually, you might get to the point you could conceive of the macro
behaviours as odd, and needing explanation in terms of the micro
behaviours, rather than the reverse.

Einstein fretted over influence at a distance. Why shouldn't the
universe behave that way?  The existence of protons seems to me even a
stranger thing than acting at a distance, why that fanatical
uniformity?  It seems to me all action has to be at SOME distance.
Even for atomic collisions. We have magnetic and gravitational fields
that act at a distance.

It is funny reading the various interpretations. It is almost as if
the deity said, "You have to eat a spoonful of strangeness, however
you get to choose which flavour of strangeness you feel most
comfortable with."


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