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Spooky Action at a Distance, What do you make of this? |
Aug 17 2007, 11:34 PM
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Anyone ever study or look in to "Spooky Action at a Distance?"
Here's a summary link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_a_distance_(physics) I always thought it was interesting. Especially "how an object could "know" the mass (in the case of gravity) or charge (in electromagnetism) of another distant object." -------------------- |
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Aug 20 2007, 11:52 AM
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So essentially, its the Force? If so, I'm quite profficient at it
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Aug 20 2007, 12:05 PM
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You could say that.
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Sep 23 2007, 11:24 PM
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what they said
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-entangle/ I alway found this amusing for some stupid reason http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat Wanted poster in post office in physics land at Berkeley: Wanted $10,000 reward. Scrodinger's Cat. Dead or Alive -------------------- "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster" ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Sep 24 2007, 10:07 PM
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Schrodinger's Cat is an amazing paradox to play around with. It will give you a headache, just trying to figure out what the wikipedia article is explaining.
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Oct 27 2007, 03:03 AM
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Anyone ever study or look in to "Spooky Action at a Distance?" Here's a summary link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_a_distance_(physics) I always thought it was interesting. Especially "how an object could "know" the mass (in the case of gravity) or charge (in electromagnetism) of another distant object." This is my first post so I hope I'm doing it right. "Spooky action at a distance" is, I believe, a symptom of the holographic universe (see Wikipedia if you've never heard of it). The underlying theory is that there are subatomic waves which generate both "spooky" particles. A good analogy is seen in electron energy levels. Electrons are seen in one energy shell or another, but never traveling the distance between, even when electrons "jump" levels. The reason is that electrons are not indivisible particles; they are formed by the convergence of waves. So "explicit" electrons can only exist within shells in atoms, because those shells are where the "implicit" waves come together. Any electron jumping an energy level is tunneling since it doesn't travel that distance between shells. This is the same "behind-the-scenes" principle that creates other spooky actions. Einstein called it "spooky" because he denied quantum physics. -------------------- Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose.
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