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To: LibWhacker

A few considerations:

The 500 pound gorilla that still must be beat is “causality”. This boils down to cause and effect, with the idea that it is impossible to see the result before the cause of that result has happened.

This means that even if communication happens faster than light, you still can’t get the message before it has been sent.

The big question will be to see what happens when matched pairs are separated by more than 186,000 miles. The pair might communicate faster than light, but the information itself might not be part of that communication until a second has passed. And at twice that distance, two seconds, etc.

This would mean that not only is causality preserved, but the universal speed limit.


28 posted on 08/14/2008 6:49:11 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
The 500 pound gorilla that still must be beat is “causality”.

After I tried to beat up a 500 pound gorilla, I'd be a "casualty"...

29 posted on 08/14/2008 6:52:00 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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