Hello friend,
recently, we had posted a post on Speed Limit Violation, which comprised of a thought experiment. But soon, thanx to a friend, Mr.Vikram, we have understoodthe flaw in it. We thank him greatly for it. But this is a diff. experiment of the same type. We simply fail to understand the flaw in it. We do feel it is flawed, for the consequence of it. But due to our limited knowledge on entanglement states and Q.M. we simply fail to understand it, to pin point it. So, we know ask for your help in sorting it out.
Now, we begin with 2 quantum particles that are entangled such that their spins are in the opposite direction. Now, before any measurement, both the particles exist in a state of superpositioned spin. So, none of the particles "know" where the other might turn out to be spinning when measured. So, now, lets assume that the particles in 2 diff. corners of the universe. Now, we take, suppose particle A and measure it. Lets assume it turns out to be spinning to the right. Now what if I measure the other particle B, just a few seconds after measuring A? B should turn out to be spinning to the left. But how come the information of the collapse of the wavefunction of the particle A reached B so quickly and its probabilities? Doesn't that violate the speed limit? A second ago, B had no idea as to where A was spinning. But just a second later it knew that A was spinning to the right, even though it was in a diff. corner of the universe. And the probabilities of B turing out to be spinning to the left or rightwere altered in the favour of spinning toward left. This problem puzzles us greatly. And hence, we ask for your help in reaching to the heart of it. Please do forgive our ignorance, if we have overlooked a fact somewhere, for we know little of the matter and simply wish to knpw more by questioning it. We hope to hear from you the problem in the thought experiment soon.
Thank you
A.B.G.D.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Thank You,
It is truly an honor for us that someone of our stature has replied to us and helped us sort out this mess better. When we read your reply, we were amazed at the straightforwardness of you reply. Your point also made us realize our mistake. For this we thank you greatly. look forward to hearing more from you.
Thank You,
A.B.G.D.
Thank You,
A.B.G.D.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Our Idea of Speed Limit Violation

Einstein's famous celebrated theory, Special Relativity suggests a very important and disappointing rule of nature that nothing, not even information, can travel faster than the speed of light. It has disappointed many science fiction writers and me, for one, am very distraught over it for I've always been fascinated by Time Travel. But is this rule entirely true ? Can it be violated sometimes ?
Maybe, for just consider this thought experiment of ours:
A person, X, from the present, found out the details of the birth of his grandpa. He was a sucidal maniac and wished not only to die, but to die in the grandest manner. He worked, for the rest of his life on a machine which would help him do it, the Time Machine. He then got into it and went back to the time of his grandpa's birth. He went to the place, so hospital, took out the hi-tech bomb from his bag and kept it there, set the timer and got back into his Time Machine. But his time machine was no ordinary. He went to the nearest wormhole and then traveled to another corner of that universe, billions and billions of light years away from the hospital. Now, he simply waited in his machine for another 5 minutes and then BOOM !!!! .....
Billions and billions of light years away, a super-powerful bomb went off. Now come the question :
" What will happen to X ? "...
Will he have to wait billions and billions of years, till the 'information waves' from the blast scene get to him and he dies because of it, long before which he will probably die a natural death. Or will he die instantly? It surely seems more perfect to think think that he would die instantly for without his granpa, even being able to get out of the hospital after his birth, how could X have come to existence.(Besides the transition from the actual parallel universe to the other one would become instantaneous). If the latter is the case, Einstein's theory has simply been VIOLATED. Or at least that is what we think. Though we are not sure, it surely seems more sensible that X will die instantaneously rather than billions and billions of years later.
Note - plz send us your valuable replies as soon as you've finished thinking over the matter
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