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To: AntiGuv

So how does this affect causality, if at all?


33 posted on 06/16/2004 2:17:36 PM PDT by B Knotts
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To: B Knotts
So how does this affect causality, if at all?

I'm not sure about causality, but it would seem to have ramifications for simultaneity, which since Einstein has been thought to be meaningful only within a particular frame of reference. Referring to simultaneous events across interstellar distances is supposed to be meaningless.

I don't understand the details, but that's what the theory is supposed to imply. Not sure where quantum entanglement fits in.

41 posted on 06/16/2004 2:22:26 PM PDT by TigerTale (From the streets of Tehran to the Gulf of Oman, let freedom ring.)
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To: B Knotts
So how does this affect causality, if at all?

It doesn't, at least not in the sense that most people think of it.

42 posted on 06/16/2004 2:22:34 PM PDT by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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