Zosimus
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A Libertarian who trumpets the need for state licensing of words? Now I've seen everything.There should be a license requirement for using analogies (to ensure proper training beforehand).
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A Libertarian who trumpets the need for state licensing of words? Now I've seen everything.There should be a license requirement for using analogies (to ensure proper training beforehand).
Yeah yeah, theory of gravity is just a theory. You have anything better than appeal to ignorance.No, you have a theory. The theory has had some limited successes. That does not mean that the theory is true.
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has been confirmed yet again as scientists have directly detected gravitational waves for the second time.
I've even more horrors to expose you to.A Libertarian who trumpets the need for state licensing of words? Now I've seen everything.
Which theory of gravity?Yeah yeah, theory of gravity is just a theory. You have anything better than appeal to ignorance.
I suppose you are referring to the "discovery" of gravity waves announced recently? After decades of looking for them, gravity waves have finally been found.We have facts about gravity that don't put a dent in GR, rather GR is the one doing the replacing of "theories". The experiment that I linked confirms for fact that space dilation is a fact of how gravity works, as predicted by GR. I use the term theory until evidence starts piling up that we don't need to cling to such terminology.
If you want to deny how gravity works thats great, show me the experiments that prove otherwise.
Riddle me this. Why is it that the new quantum gravity observations from black holes only confirm GR when quantum realms are supposedly incompatible?
Wow bold claims with no experimental evidence to back it up, just ridicule of other people actually finding answers."These people don’t even try to fake the scientific method anymore. In that method, you would have to cross off all the other causes of that tiny motion. Since you can’t possibly do that in this case, assigning the motion to hypothetical black holes is just a farce..."
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I couldn't agree more.
More appeal to ignorance. I'm not interested in even someone replicating it if they can falsify it.Of course, no one has been able to replicate the findings,
Not at all. Your appeals to ignorance in no way make it confirmation bias on my part.It's this thing called confirmation bias.
http://www.livescience.com/27920-quantum-action-faster-than-light.html
http://www.gizmag.com/quantum-entanglement-speed-10000-faster-light/26587/
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/quantum-weirdnes-wins-again-entangl-2008-08-13/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...n-acts-at-10000-times-the-speed-of-light.html
http://www.isciencetimes.com/articl...ree-way-quantum-communication-light-speed.htm
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...stance-at-least-10000-times-faster-than-light
http://www.listland.com/top-10-cool...e-10000-times-faster-than-the-speed-of-light/
pwned
Oh, you think that you can just wander off for awhile and come back to argue something that wasn't being argued in the first place. I have bad news for you: I remember the argument very well. Let's recap, shall we? Viole said:Haha. The same old tried technique to delegate debate to google. I already showed you that i could debate in favor of a flat earth, by using google.
By the way, you keep embarassng yourself by posting things that contradict your claim. Here is for instance from the first link:
"Whereas the result may sound like a way to send faster-than-light messages, it isn't, really, because you can't know the state of the entangled photon pair before it's measured; so there's no way to control it and make the photon at the other end take on certain states and use it like a Morse code telegraph"
I wonder wether you read/understand what you post. I also wonder whether you are not a computer program that debates by searching for key words and post links automatically.
Look, the physics is very simple. When two particles interact they might jump spontaneously into a state of minimal energy. When that happens, they become highly entangled. They become like one system, or a system of two particles with constraints. The constraint, or correlation, is that they will have opposite spins when you measure them.
You can have systems with constrants in classical mechanics, too. For instance, rigid bodies. You do not need to measure the state of all particles in.a rigid body. Once you have a couple, all the others are given. Instantaneously.
Same here. Measuring the spin of one particle, gives you the other. Maybe less intuitive, but this is mainly due to the fact that our brains did not evolve to have an intuition of subatomic particles.
No need to invoke spooky actions at a distance or other absurdities.
Wow, an original thought of yours. Unfortunately, I don't know what it means.
Well, at least we know you are not a computer program. They tend to make no spelling errors
Ciao
- viole
Petulantly Withholding Normally Excellent Discernment?pwned again.
Petulantly Withholding Normally Excellent Discernment?
The NIST experiments are called Bell tests, so named because in 1964 Irish physicist John Bell showed there are limits to measurement correlations that can be ascribed to local, pre-existing (i.e. realistic) conditions. Additional correlations beyond those limits would require either sending signals faster than the speed of light, which scientists consider impossible, or another mechanism, such as quantum entanglement.
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Once again, because you know that you are getting pwned, you insist on changing the argument. Let's recap.My point really. All these things are due to entanglement, which we know to exist, and not to sending signals faster than light. Notice the "or" in the sentence. And that is why there is no problem with relativity. There never was. Every physicists knows that today.
I start gettng some confidence that you do not even understand what you post in "defense" of your argument. Which is to be expected if you just cut and paste from the Internet instead of actually studying the subject
Ciao
- viole
Once again, because you know that you are getting pwned, you insist on changing the argument. Let's recap.
You asked whether I had made the 10,000 times the speed of light number up. I posted multiple links showing that it was not made up.
Now you are trying to argue that "all these things are due to entanglement."
Well, yes, that's a given. The question is what is entanglement? Is entanglement due to a hidden variable that entangled particles share that allow them to coordinate their behavior or is entanglement due to some kind of a strange communication between the two particles that we cannot understand? You seem to be championing the hidden variable theory, likening the entanglement to having a red ball in one box and a blue ball in the other and just not knowing which box contains which ball until the boxes are opened.
However, I refer you to It’s been a tough week for hidden variable theories wherein we read:
"The November 2nd issue of Science had two independent papers describing the results of recent delayed-choice experiments. The goal of these papers was to rule out hidden variable theories as an explanation for aspects of quantum mechanics. More specifically, the experiments showed that the wave-particle duality which results during measurement in the double-slit experiment cannot be explained by combining classical mechanics with local hidden variables. This won’t come as a surprise to people who deal with quantum mechanics on a daily basis (consciously), but it’s nice to have additional material to refer to quantum naysayers, and the experimental set-ups were impressive."
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In conclusion, while hidden variable theories are not impossible – perhaps you will improve on them and make them work – the current scientific thinking is that hidden variables cannot explain what is observed.
So, once again, I have posted links that refute you whereas you merely say "I talked to this teacher who told me otherwise."
In conclusion:
1. I did not make the 10,000 times the speed of light number up. I have posted multiple links supporting that number as the best information available to date.
2. Hidden variable theories, while not impossible, are not the preferred explanation for quantum entanglement.
So you can cluck your tongue all you want, roll your eyes, and search desperately for an exit from the corner you've painted yourself into. At the present time, the data do not support your position.
Once again, your post is devoid of anything. Links? What have you shown other than empty claims?And who is trying to find an exit, since I agree that entanglement is real and there are no hidden variables?
My point is all this does not pose a threat to relativity at all, because entanglement , even without hidden variables, does not require any signal communication between the two particles. It actually forbids it. And this is why NO SERIOUS PHYSICST believes special relativity is broken by the absense of hidden variables in entanglement. This is only in your mind, What Einstein did not like does not entail that it broke its theory. It did not.
There is even a theorem about that: the no communication theorem that proves, mathematically, that you cannot send signals at a speed higher than light's in entanglement system. You seem to ignore that, too.
And that is why relativity is still taught as orthodoxy. And that is why it is even married to QM In so the so called quantum field theories or Quantistic electrodynmics, which are riddled with entanglement, and yet, provide a framework to explain basically everything about matter and its interaction with light. QM and relativity form together what is arguably the best confirmed theory of all times.
You seem to it ignore even that, that special relativity and quantum mechanics work pretty well together in this area.
And if you knew how local density matrixes are affected by remote experiments, you would know that. But I guess you do not even know what a density matrix is. Which sets a superior limit to your competence to argue about the subject in this area.
So, my suggestion is that you stop getting your education from the Internet or from "experts" ala D. Chopra, and start doing your homework, if you want to really debate the subject, with a reduce risk of self embarassement.
Ciao
- viole
Once again, your post is devoid of anything. Links? What have you shown other than empty claims?
Second, I never claimed that meaningful FTL communication was possible. Don't put words into my mouth.
Finally, I still think it's hilarious that you claim to be an expert on "density matrixes" but you don't even know that the plural is matrices. In fact, Google won't even permit you to search for "density matrixes." It immediately shows the results for density matrices and clucks its tongue disapprovingly.
While I'm at it, you should learn to spell embarrassment. Double r, double s.
First of all, Wikipedia is no kind of an authoritative source.Here you go:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
Note: the theorem excludes spooky actions at a distance for non hidden variable theories and might not be true for hidden variables versions.
Since we both seem to agree that there are no hidden variables, well, you can do the math.
Ciao
- viole
Actually, many of the articles are well written and very well cited using academic and other credible sources.First of all, Wikipedia is no kind of an authoritative source.