Re: Very Short Very Curious Paper on Complexity

From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 01:38:08 MDT


In a message dated 9/4/02 19:42:28, avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com writes:

>Interesting read. I don't understand physics but is it necessarily a bad
>thing to allow spacelike-separated observers who share entaglement to
>communicate?

Megabad. It's easy to cook up grandfather paradoxes.

>Is relativstic causality violated if signalling into the past
>is never activated? Does it matter?

Well, the way relativity works, FTL communication is equivalent to
communicating
into the past for some observer. It's not necessary to explicitly set up
paradoxes,
per se, but with the butterfly effect and all that I think they'd basically
be
inescapable.



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