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To: D-fendr

One of the most interesting things about Bell's work is that it might imply temporal as well as spatial non-locality.

There are folks trying to investigate it now, and so far the results seem to indicate time is local the way we used to think space was.


85 posted on 01/19/2005 9:39:17 AM PST by djf
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To: djf
One of the most interesting things about Bell's work is that it might imply temporal as well as spatial non-locality.

My understanding is that that's the case when viewed by both theories of relativity.

Gravity for example slows time. Your clock is faster than mine when you're on top of a tall building. This has been confirmed by very accurate measurement.

If you're on the surface of a black hole, time stops - rather time becomes meaningless.

Time also varies relative to speed. If you're traveling near the speed of light your time is seen as very fast relative to me (by me), normal to you. The electron synchrotron uses this to produce x-ray radiation from a fast moving electron. It's only radio wave frequency to the electron, but sped up ten thousand times to us.

Each frame of reference has it's own time and will usually disagree with everyone elses. "What time is it?" becomes meaningless as does "Now."

This is all relativity stuff and here the speed of light is sacrosanct. Bell's Inequality and Aspect's experiments results if interpreted one way "prove" signals/information can travel faster than light. Interpreted another way, assuming the light speed limit, "prove" nonlocality. This view was expressed by a physicist this way:

"An elementary particle is not an independenttly existing unalysable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reach outward to other things.:

Hope this relates to your reply. I'm only a rank layman, I happen to be reading a book on this stuff right now…

87 posted on 01/19/2005 5:41:19 PM PST by D-fendr
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