Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
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Hi,
A thought experiment I am struggling with..
Imagine you were disembodied and could only communicate with the outside world through the wave function collapse. What would be the best way to try and communicate with people?
Conversely, if you were looking for such a person what device could you build that would cut through the noise of the surrounding system and help him communicate cleanly?
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Communication through wave function collapse. I'm finding it difficult to understand what would have a wave function in a disembodied person. Do you mean a head, kept alive artificially? Assuming there could be such wave functions, what about this idea?.... I imagine that you know about the isolated electrons that occur at the cores of microtubles located within neurones of the brain? Well, if the electrons were superimposed on electrons in other parts of the brain and are receptors for collapsing wave functions from these other parts of the brain, you already have a whole lot of receptors. Perhaps this is how human intelligence works? Perhaps a form of telepathy exists by this means? If so, you have your communication channel.
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Supposedly coherent information can't be communicated between single entangled pairs because of random fluctuation. But what if you were to use more than one entangled pair? Could a number of entangled pairs be separated, each set contained in a ring or array and read off separately using a binary bitstream - i.e. affected/unaffected? Is it necessary to know at the receiving end what the initial spin conditions are at the sending end? In other words, can a change in state be recognised at the receiving end by merely examining each of its entangled particles and observing their behaviour?
Secondly, teleportation of information has been experimentally confirmed across space. But what about across time? If one half of an entangled pair is sent into an accelerator and accelerated to sublight speed, doesn't that mean that time will be slowed down for the accelerated particle? So if the unaccelerated particle is affected, doesn't this in turn mean that the change in its twin will no longer be simultaneous and will take time to register? If decoherence doesn't occur for the accelerated particle and entanglement survives acceleration doesn't this then imply that as far as the accelerated particle is concerned its state is being determined by an event in its future?
And if the accelerated particle is then removed from the accelerator will any time differential still exist between the entangled pair or will they somehow 'snap' back together in the present?
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