What I find most interesting is that it is funded by people who know no physics but want to physically know.
Terry On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Horace Heffner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 23, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: > >> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Mauro Lacy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The furthest implications are that you have no right in physics, >>> epistemologically speaking, to talk about relative time scales, or which >>> is >>> the same, time dimensions. >> >> I believe your argument would be negated by successful results from >> John G. Cramer's experiments: >> >> >> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/21/ING5LNJSBF1.DTL >> >> When NASA dropped funding for such advanced projects, John received >> funding from public donations. His present status: >> >> http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/05/20/1938752.aspx >> >> Since two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time, >> Cramer's entanglement experiements will require the dimensionality of >> time. >> >> Terry > > > It is interesting to me that the planned experiment described is very > similar in some ways to the means I suggested to establish FTL > communication: > > http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/FTL-down.pdf > > One difference is the use of a moving lense at Alice's location, to change > the detection mode to particle vs wave. A particle detection eliminates the > interference pattern at Bob's location. This has a similar problem to my > method, which is the practical problem of being able to establish an > interference pattern at both Bob and Alice's location. Such a pattern > establishes the "wave-like" measurement. Cramer's method uses slits to > accomplish the interference pattern instead of the wave splitters I > suggested, and this is probably a major improvement. > > I would think using straight line communications for the experiment, as > shown in Fig. 2 of my article, instead of fiber, would greatly reduce the > noise and reduce the number of photons that lose entanglement due to > interaction with the fiber atoms. Perhaps the planned use of Anton > Zeilinger's periodically poled crystals, instead of down converters, to > vastly increase the paired photon production will overcome the fiber > limitations. > > Cramer has a beautiful plan. I hope it comes to fruition. If the practical > problems are overcome then the results will be most interesting. > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > > > > >
