Re: Layman's question about speed of light

Mark Conrad a écrit :
I probably have this all screwed up because I am going
from memory.

Seems to me that I read something about a year ago about
an APPARENT violation of Einstein's speed-of-light concept.

Something about anti-matter pairs, such as electron/positron.


The article suggested that whatever was done to the electron
in any specific anti-matter pair would IMMEDIATELY influence
the positron of that specific anti-matter pair.

Key word here being "immediately", i.e. no lag due to
speed-of-light considerations.

...even if the electron and positron were separated by
a vast distance.


In other words, modify the spin characteristics of the
electron, and the associated positron supposedly will
respond immediately, even if that positron were physically
separated from its anti-matter "twin".



I know quantum physics is weird, but it is not _that_ weird.

(or is it)


I must be misunderstanding some basic concept.

Mark-

This probably refered to entanglement (look for this searchword).

But this concerns photon pairs being theoretically matched
from the same source, not electron-positron pairs

This is theoretical and some physicists seem to take
entanglement for granted.

It involves "instantaneous action at a distance" that the
same physicists say is impossible for gravity.

A self contradiction that has become quite common in
the community.

The failure to make real discoveries for the past 40 years
is causing them to grab at any loose thread of unexplained
physics and cook up would be scientific explanations that
rely mostly on wishfull thinking if not plain magic.

As for electron-positron pair interaction, you can look
up the search word positronium.

André Michaud

André Michaud
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