Re: Observing a Photon no Longer a Seek-and-Destroy Mission

From: Double-A (double-a_at_hush.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: 30 Jun 2004 11:26:47 -0700

"Tom Potter" <tdp@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<2kdjppF15hkmU1@uni-berlin.de>...
[snip]

> 1. As I indicated in a previous post,
> I have many theories on many things,
> none of which are relevant to this thread.
>
> 2. The theory under discussion in this thread,
> is Double-A's theory that photons can be
> tracked through time and space.
>
> 3. Note that although I have requested many times
> for references to ANY experiment that tracks <A>
> photon through time and space, the best that
> Double-A has come up with is the email from a "Sam Silverstein"
> hypothesizing about a proposed experiment,
> which does not track <A> photon,
> but makes many, self-serving assumptions about
> secondary particles that result from energizing target particles.
> ( Keep the grant money rolling in assumptions.)
>
> The fact of the matter is that the ONLY thing
> that can be measured between a cause and an effect,
> is an interaction time.
>
> One could just as correctly assert that angels,
> rather than photons, convey changes from causes to effects.

Ref: http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/6/18

  "Physicists have succeeded in entangling five photons for the first
  time. Although four photons have been entangled before, five is the
  minimum number needed for universal error correction in quantum
  computation. Moreover, the same team has demonstrated a process
  called "open-destination teleportation" for the first time (Z Zhao
et
  al. 2004 Nature 430 54). The results represent a major breakthrough
  in efforts to exploit the laws of quantum mechanics in quantum
  information processing."

There seem to be so many experiments going on involving these
"mythical" photons. In this particular experiment, I wonder what it
is that you think they are entangling, Tom, if they are not photons?

Double-A

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