Re: Superluminal information transfer paradox

From: Bilge (dubious_at_radioactivex.lebesque-al.net)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: 28 Jan 2005 23:27:24 GMT

 John Schoenfeld:
>Tom Roberts wrote:

>> noise. Your entire discussion is flawed. In essence you are claiming
>> that aliens located everywhere throughout the universe are sending
>> "superluminal signals", and the noise in our radios proves it --

>NONSENSE!
>
>What you missed was that if the alien transmission CAUSED the noise on
 
  What you missed is that, by definition, noise is random and you
cannot generate random numbers using any casual process.

[...]
>> The speed limit of SR and GR is for the transfer of energy. Since
>> Shannon we know that the transfer of information requires transfer of
>> energy. So information transfer is also limited to speeds less than
>> or equal to the local speed of light.
>
>I am not familiar with the work of Shannon, so I cannot comment on that
>statement.
 
  If you aren't familiar with shannon's work, then you have reason to
be discussing information theory. Shannon invented the subject and
the shannon entropy is fundanental to the theory.

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