From: Ross A. Finlayson (extropy@apexinternetsoftware.com)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 12:33:15 MDT
On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 08:35 AM, John K Clark wrote:
> "scerir" <scerir@libero.it> Wrote:
>
>> standard QM does not allow us to send FTL
>> messages or informations
>
> True.
>
Cherenkov radiation is faster than light. It's the radiation preceding
a light wave in a medium like water where light goes slower than c in
vacuum. Maybe it's a form of light.
>> are FTL 'influences', FTL 'random' informations', or FTL
>> 'exchanges' of informations possible?
>
> Faster than light influences are not only possible they have been
> demonstrated in the lab, but that's not the same as communicating
> because to
> do that you not only have to make a change in the receiver you must
> establish a standard against that change is measured; changing one
> apparently random sequence to a different apparently random sequence is
> not
> good enough to send information.
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
>
>
Two facing mirrors in a dark frictionless vacuum float away from each
other.
I think that is sending information, when it changes the information has
been sent. "One if by land, two if by sea." Eight such experiments is
an FTL byte, octet. Do those particle teleportations not work that way?
Ross
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