From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 15:35:06 MST
Michael F Dickey wrote:
You asked a lot of questions here, many of them very similar to others.
I hope the following is sufficient to answer them. I'm sure others might
like to join in and take up where I leave off...
[gts wrote:]
>> "Here for now is my brief and tentative answer: First
>> of all I think the conundrum you pose is not real in
>> the way you think it is. We need to remember that the
>> universe is quantized *only in relation to an observer*."
>
> Is that true?
Yes it's true according to the standard interpretation of QM.
A photon for example is a single quanta of light. We can infer from
certain experiments that light behaves in a continuous non-quantized
manner until it is observed/measured, at which time it appears to our
instruments as quantized particles. The energy of a photon is a function
of Planck's constant.
This is true not only for light but also for all other forms of
electromagnetic radiation, and indeed for all forms of matter including
massive particles like protons and neutrons.
Like light, time is continuous when we are not measuring it. It is
however meaningless to speak of units of time smaller than the planck
time, which is the time needed for a photon to travel one planck length.
It is meaningless to speak of shorter durations of time because the
quantum states of measured objects in the universe cannot change in less
than a unit of planck time.
For example, if it were possible to take two consecutive measurements of
the position of a single particle in less than a unit of planck time,
the particle would appear in the same position in both measurements. It
would be as though the clock stopped during the interval between your
two measurements.
> If it is not quantized in an absolute sense, then it must be
> smooth and continuous, and our observations must be quantized.
Right.
> If that were the case, I certainly *would not* teleport anywhere in
any
> short amount of time.
Why not?
Your experience of life is what counts, and upon close inspection your
experience of life is quantized. Your eyes, for example, are designed by
nature to detect photons and signal their presence to your brain. Under
the right conditions even a single photon can be detected by the naked
eye.
As I wrote above, it is though the clock stops for intervals shorter
than one planck time. I think that interval would be the perfect
opportunity to teleport. The teleported version of you would be
identical to the original version of you with respect to every quantum
state. You could be assured then that your experience would continue
seamlessly.
-gts
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