John Cramer, a physicist at the University of Washington, believes that light particles can act in reverse time, and he has compelling evidence behind his theory. Cramer is a well-respected experimental physicist with an impressive particle physics background.
Still works here... Try googling dailygalaxy - and navigate the Archives (backwards in time!) to 14 June, 2007 (or, again, backwards for you US peeps to June 14, 2007)
Pretty cool stuff and it feels right on a gut level, for what that's worth. He wants to split particles and use entanglement to transmit information faster the light would allow using fibre optics.
$2000.00 on Hazy Daze to win in the fourth please.
Funny - I can see it from home, no problems. May be a browser version issue.
Anyway, quantum entanglement has been thought to be a game changer for quite a while. But how we actually get to use it for anything meaningful, I think we're a century at least away from that.
I wonder if one of the reasons they say that the universe expansion is accelerating is that perhaps time is simply slowing down?
Here's another question: if space itself is expanding, (not the distance, but the 'stuff between,' then how do we detect it? Does a red shift show up when the 'stuff between' gets further apart?
And one more: how do we know that time isn't going backwards already and space is collapsing into a big crunch?
The explananation I heard once was to imagine living on a balloon which is being inflated (draw dots on one, and inflate). Each point moves away from the rest. So, yes. measure the distance from any source and see it's all increasing. red->away, blue->towards.
//he may be able to solve the mystery of how these particles react thousands of miles apart//
ReplyDeleteAt best, four-dimensional thinking.
Can't get through to that link. :(
ReplyDeleteI am also unable to get through.
ReplyDeleteStrange...It was working earlier without special credentials.
ReplyDeleteIf it starts like this, then I can:
ReplyDeleteJohn Cramer, a physicist at the University of Washington, believes that light particles can act in reverse time, and he has compelling evidence behind his theory. Cramer is a well-respected experimental physicist with an impressive particle physics background.
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See also: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer2/index.asp?ploc=t&refer=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/319367_timeguy12.html?source=rss
Navigating backwards through the archives....hm, that would be time travel, wouldn't it?
ReplyDeleteWorks on this end.
ReplyDeletePretty cool stuff and it feels right on a gut level, for what that's worth.
He wants to split particles and use entanglement to transmit information faster the light would allow using fibre optics.
$2000.00 on Hazy Daze to win in the fourth please.
I'm pretty sure absinthewol's got a point (entanglement -> separated in x,y,z dimensions doesn't imply separated in *all* dimensions (including T!))
ReplyDeleteI'm really surprised there isn't some global "bucket" of funds, bequeathed by "failed" scientists who were proven right (or Nobel-alikes), though
Funny - I can see it from home, no problems. May be a browser version issue.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, quantum entanglement has been thought to be a game changer for quite a while. But how we actually get to use it for anything meaningful, I think we're a century at least away from that.
I think I saw this week that someone's building a network based on it (? I could be wrong)
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I wonder if one of the reasons they say that the universe expansion is accelerating is that perhaps time is simply slowing down?
ReplyDeleteHere's another question: if space itself is expanding, (not the distance, but the 'stuff between,' then how do we detect it? Does a red shift show up when the 'stuff between' gets further apart?
And one more: how do we know that time isn't going backwards already and space is collapsing into a big crunch?
It all hurts my head...
The explananation I heard once was to imagine living on a balloon which is being inflated (draw dots on one, and inflate).
ReplyDeleteEach point moves away from the rest. So, yes. measure the distance from any source and see it's all increasing. red->away, blue->towards.
Until the balloon bursts, and it all becomes a shriveled, crinkled, layered Proust-ian remembrance of things past. Not unlike a condom, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteAh, now we're talking big BANG
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