7/2/11

Another Unscientific View of Quantum Entanglement & Speed of Light Limit

One might wonder if Einstein developed the speed of light as the maximum possible velocity because a photon is a basic massless particle in the field of the Universe. For anything with mass to travel through space-time it would pass through gravitational fields and others equivalent to riding a bicycle into the wind and receiving increasing resistance with increased speed. Mass effectively increases to infinity as it is accelerated to the speed of light, more energy is needed to move it through resisting quanta of space, or maybe inertia lets it travel through the one atom per cubic meter void of space at light speed as a black hole. Maybe the missing mass of the universe are several separate particles of mass accelerated to light speed with the accompanying apparent infinite mass weight gain as black holes that embed themselves in normal space-time.

Einstein won the Nobel for his work reconstituting light as a particle rather than just a wave.

Some of us non-physicists have a grasp of some of the facts about relativity and light as the maximum possible speed. Anything accelerating near light speed experiences an increase of the value of its mass right up to infinity at the high end. For some reason the things that make us matter when accelerated pass through space and acquire excess gravity and or their energy converts into mass.

Well, enough of that non-sense. The Delta V values of getting several thousand pounds of mass to move at light speed would evidently cost about as much as the federal debt to a higher power.

Things travelling in the Universe as mass may not be able to go faster than light, yet quantum particles seem to exchange information faster than light when entangled and so the non-physicist wonders why?

One obvious answer is that the waveform of any particle when observed collapses into a special spatial location from all possible spatial locations making a reduction ad absurdum occur exchanging information to the bound particles.

Because quantum particles are a little different than photons-a different class of particles, they may be able to travel through space-time without being subject to the sort of effects that add weight to mass accelerating near the speed of light. Maybe quantum waves are too small to be influenced by gravity. If so one wonders if gravity might not be redistributed by design if information can be exchanged to entangled particles in a one way fashion. Yet that raises the question of can information have weight, add mass to anything or drop into a gravitational field.

The nature of quantum particles as waves that become located particles only when observed-something perhaps like the contact of an infinite line with a sphere at some point along it raises other questions.

What boundaries would exist if any for quantum waves…do they go off into infinity spatially beyond even the mass-energy extent of the observable universe? What force would contain such infinite waves?

Would quantum waves be infinite in all directions or just a few?

The prospects for travelling faster than light have been said to be improbable given the difficulties in reducing a human being to quantum information and reassembling through entanglement somewhere else.

I believe those working on such issues theoretically require that some sort of conventional communication line exist to the entangled location as well as the quantum channel.

One might regard the quantum phenomenon in other, more theoretical parameters than those at present known to us non-physicists. It might be possible to contain quantum information in the quantum realm for itself-perhaps as an echo relocated to another universal location without entangling anything besides information.

The possibilities of interacting with a quantum realm of waveforms of infinite length and uncertain nature from this steady-state realm of larger aggregations of energy waves as mass/matter may be greater than that ordinarily regarded as likely in the realm of popular theoretical physics for non-physicists.

Waveforms of quantum should be thought of as very small-something like beyond the ultraviolet, yet even those would be very much too large for quantum signaling with entanglement. One might wonder if the speed is instantaneous in the quantum realm over any material universal scale because of the difference between the two fields.

Extra, smaller dimensions providing shortcuts through the larger, bulkier dimensions of this Universe (the 3d Universe) are an obvious hypothetical context solution; however that would leave unanswered the speed of light paradox incompletely accounted for.

If a photons is a basic fundamental particle that travels through an electro-magnetic field at a maximum, constant velocity then a basic particle or string travelling through extra-dimensions as an entangled analogue of real-world entangled quanta should be simply occupying a higher, smaller dimensional position from which it descends with observation by scientists into the correct or preferred state of spin. From the smaller, higher dimensions the distance to any location in this Universe of 3D may be trivial. That is basic particles may not travel faster through smaller dimensions; they may travel a much shorter distance.

At least that’s one way of considering the paradox of how quanta may be entangled an exchange information through an unobserved quantum state of uncertainty and be bound together at a distance precluding information exchange at subluminal velocity.

If waveforms of quanta actual exist in smaller dimensions then measuring them from larger dimensions may be challenging and appear to provide slower answers.

One may wonder if ordinary, unobserved quantum waves are finite such as a segment of a line, or if they are of infinite length? Even if there are not extra dimensions an explanations for quantum wave packet signaling faster than light, as well as of the entanglement of quanta remains to be explained.

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