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Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon
StartsWithABang writes: One of the more puzzling phenomena in our quantum Universe is that of entanglement: two particles remain in mutually indeterminate states until one is measured, and then the other — even if it's across the Universe — is immediately known. In theory, this should be true even if one member of the pair falls into a black hole, although it's impossible to measure that. However, we can (and have) measured that for the laboratory analogue of black holes, known as "dumb holes," and the entanglement survives!
This should come as a surprise to exactly no one. Anyone who can apply logic can tell you that the physical universe is a layer above the non-physical energy (matter is merely 'bound energy') that is the fundamental substance of existence. Quantum particles are known to "flicker in and out of physical reality". That has been directly observed. So where do you think that energy goes when it's no longer *physically* present? Just disappears into nothingness, the one state that's simply not possible whatsoever? Of course it's still there, and of course the rules that apply to that non-physical energy still apply even when you can't physically access it. Energy is information, matter is merely a storage medium. The information is always extant, even if it's not currently represented on any physical storage medium.
A simple way to understand this is to visualize the universe as being made of numbers. The positive numbers can be represented by matter (regardless of polarity, so yes, anti-matter is positive numbers) and negative numbers cannot be represented physically, but are nonetheless just as 'real'.
Anyone who argues otherwise, yet agrees that 2 minus 5 equals negative 3, should be required to demonstrate physical proof that 2 minus 5 equals negative 3 before being allowed to speak further on the subject... ;)
- For everything above quantum, the maximum speed is the speed of light.
- This dictates cause and effect, and therefore time.
- If we send out a steady stream of entangled particles, and sometimes change and sometimes don't (at the one end), and measure at the other (this is how I imagine how a bitstream would work using quantum entanglement, correct me if I'm wrong), we can send information quicker than the speed of light.
- Therefore the information goes back in time.
Or something?
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.