On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 08:13:39 +0000 (UTC)
jim bell
I thought of an interesting thought-experiment
... description of experiment...
But, the information within it wasn'tactually readable for one year, until the decrypt key arrived. Can we say that this information arrived after one year, and thus at an effective speed of 'c'? If it is the former, somehow the idea that information can't be transmitted at fasterthan 'c' is invalid. If it's the latter, this appears to confirm that limit. Which is it?
I think that in your scenario, the encrypted information was transmitted at faster than light speed.
You said: "Yep. It either works or not." The 'gotcha' is that whether it "works" or not is dependent on your definition of the word, '
OK. In this case, the part of the system that transmits encrypted information at ftl speed indeed works, but the system as a whole can't transmit useful information at ftl speed, so I would say it doesn't 'work', or doesn't have an obvious practical application.
works'. Does it seem to transmit the data virtually instantly? Yes. Is that information available immediately? No. It takes a year to learn the contentof that encrypted file. Is the limit of 'c' violated? I don't know. What do you think?
Yes, the limit of c is violated, but I don't think that is a problem, because contrary to 'scientific' dogma, I don't believe there must be an absolute (haha!) maximum speed that moving objects can't exceed. Now, although your hypothetical scenario makes sense, the question remains : do entangled particles actually behave like in your scenario? (I'll do some searching tomorrow, see what comes up)