2/23/12

The Possible Errors Found In Faster-Than Light Neutrino Experiment

The possible inaccurate use of g.p.s. signals that gave the arrival time of neutrinos traveling about 450 miles in 60 nanoseconds a faster than light value makes on wonder if it would be even possible to measure faster than light signals in a space-time field theoretically?

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/breaking-news-error-undoes-faster.html

If matter and energy only appear in light-speed or less contexts, and if anything else that does exist is in some kind of undetermined, non-material state in a quantum realm of non-determination existing prior to the apparent solid state Universe, it may be generically impossible for anything that travels faster than light to appear in the solid state universe.

In quantum entanglement experiments that remind me a little of the CERN-Gran Sasso neutrino experiments information is apparently exchanged between entangled quantum particles at faster than light speed. There may be no theoretical way to measure how much faster the information is exchanged because the speed issue may be irrelevant.

Cynics might suggest that the quantum entanglement experimenters also had 'loose wires' in each and every case of information being exchanged faster than light. Some though are skeptical of global warming.

The non-determined quantum world experienced by wave-particles in all possible theoretical locations when unobserved may not have space-time field characteristics like those of the solid-state universe with its light-speed limit.

Well, it’s an interesting point to think about.

I would guess that quantum entanglement is something of a partial wave function collapse, yet not completely. Some of the superposition of eigenstates of quanta may be reduced or positioned in some way between entangled particles so that one one particle's state is determined through the collapse of the wave function through an observation the entangled particle shares that trait too seemingly instantaneously at-a-distance.

Obviously I have no idea about the mathematics of these physical theories-just an interest in them for philosophical conversational purposes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse

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