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To: sourcery
Einstein thought this connection violated the relativity rule that information can't travel faster than the speed of light.

Good article. Quantum entanglement is a hot field.

Einstein's model concerned the apparent speed of propagation of electromagnetic phenomena--photons. He threw in gravity effects for reasons known only to him. If you are talking about electric and magnetic fields, they propagate at a natural speed which is c in a vacuum. Einstein also gave photons a certain amount of validity. Photons are still debateable as to whether there is any such particle. Point is, if you are using E-M effects to transmit information, the natural speed is c, but you can generate other speeds using phase shift propagation. If some other fields besides electromagnetic fields are used, speeds might be different. Not enough data as yet.

6 posted on 04/10/2003 11:51:24 AM PDT by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts)
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To: RightWhale
The photoelectric effect would seem to indicate that the photon behaves like a particle in some cases.
9 posted on 04/10/2003 11:55:37 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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