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Everything is entangled. Prove me wrong.
Einstein believed particles at a distance could not interact with each other.
" Everything is entangled." does not mesh with what he believed.
Einstein believed Quantum Mechanics was hocus pocus.
Wikipedia said:Max Born proposed that mechanics were to be understood as a probability without any causal explanation. Einstein rejected this interpretation.
He recognizes the great value of the theory, but suggests that it "does not tell the whole story", and, while providing an appropriate description at a certain level, it gives no information on the more fundamental underlying level:
I have the greatest consideration for the goals which are pursued by the physicists of the latest generation which go under the name of quantum mechanics, and I believe that this theory represents a profound level of truth, but I also believe that the restriction to laws of a statistical nature will turn out to be transitory....Without doubt quantum mechanics has grasped an important fragment of the truth and will be a paragon for all future fundamental theories, for the fact that it must be deducible as a limiting case from such foundations, just as electrostatics is deducible from Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field or as thermodynamics is deducible from statistical mechanics.
" Everything is entangled."
Correct but not what Einstien believed.
Everything is entangled. Prove me wrong.
Everything is entangled. Prove me wrong.
Are we talking physics here, because I would like to see the textbook you are quoting here.
he was against quantum mechanics as far as my knowledge goes, at least skeptical and cynical towards it.
yesIf it is not in a textbook, then it is not physics? That is a great point.
yesIf it is not in a textbook, then it is not physics? That is a great point.
Everything is entangled. Prove me wrong.
Technically, that's what String Theory posits. According to that theory the world exists as a giant hologram where entangled particles exist in opposing states/realities. And when you collapse the wave function (by untangling particles), you actually collapse your parallel reality to one of a number of particle states. But the other states are thought to exist independently of you in a parallel world kind of way.
I'm personally not a fan of that theory, since it seems much more likely that entangled particles are just closely bound by some kind of electromagnetic spin that requires them to interact a certain way; and that when you pull entangled particles apart very large distances, it is likely we are just seeing the kinetic energy of their initial entanglement, which happens to reflect their initial entangled state. Because for one, once you disturb one particle (in order to measure it), you lose all information (even if just statistical information) about its previously entangled pair and so, you can't transmit information from one to the other like a wormhole to break the speed of light. You'd have to entangle them first and then pull them apart at the maximum speed of light to keep their entangled information over a large distance, defeating the point of faster than light travel.
It's also likely that the quantum vacuum is made up of some kind of orientation and/or spin (if that's the same thing), similar to a electromagnetic field because light, which is an alternating magnetic and electric field, travels through it at the localized maximum speed limit of c. If I had to bet on it, I'd say in order to travel faster than the maximum speed of light, you'd have to exist without any kind of inherent electromagnetic push/pull/spin, which seems to make up all kinds of matter, including the quarks in supposedly electromagnetically neutral neutrons (which can be effected by very large frequency electromagnetic photons, known as cosmic rays), and gravity which is probably just a more complicated interaction of the spin of the quantum vacuum versus the spin of matter. But in theory, if you could do that, you'd probably exist in another dimension anyway.
Anyway, what was the question/problem?
I guess it depends on how you view different dimensions. I see them as overlapping by degree. So if someone is in another dimension, they don't exist outside of this universe, but they exist in it. However, a dimension that has close to zero measurable impact on what we can observe does have the capacity to build up enough energy to cross a threshold. So even if we exist in a multiverse, technically it is still a singular universe.
An easy way to think about it would be by a vibrating string. Let's say that you cut in down its center, and separated the two strings (in a vacuum). They would both vibrate at the same frequency and amplitude no matter how far apart they are. If you measure one, does it affect the other? Let's say 100 feet apart you measure and it's vibrating at 110 Hz, then go and measure the other one, would you be surprised if it was also 110 Hz?
I guess it depends on how you view different dimensions. I see them as overlapping by degree. So if someone is in another dimension, they don't exist outside of this universe, but they exist in it. However, a dimension that has close to zero measurable impact on what we can observe does have the capacity to build up enough energy to cross a threshold. So even if we exist in a multiverse, technically it is still a singular universe.
I guess that's the thing though. It "appears" that electromagnetic charge seems inherent to everything, so we are always bounded by the locality of the speed of c. And so by another dimension, I kind of mean not existing in the system any more. Like being outside the simulation. However, maybe you are right and we could just lower it enough to where it doesn't effect things the same way and we could maybe travel faster than light that way. But even something like a neutron still has charge at a certain micro-level and it is bound by c anyway because it has mass. And according to relativity, mass is also relative and goes up as you move faster, which can include rotating bodies (and resulting increases in gravity). So it almost seems you have to somehow become massless, but since the massless photons are still limited by c, it seems untenable that we could ever theoretically go faster than light.
But then again, in a way it doesn't matter. Theoretically, if we could travel close to the speed of light, our time relative to everything else slows down considerably to where you could travel great distances in very small amounts of time, even seconds depending on how fast you are going. But the universe would undergo rapid changes in the process. And if you could move at the speed of light, your time would stop and the universe would go through infinite time, so this is not ideal.
There's also theoretical space shifting warp drive machines I've by been reading about that use anti-matter to warp space (and ignoring that those theories admit they don't understand what anti-matter really is and make assumptions about it). But even those machines are likely still limited by c because the propagation of warped space due to gravitational changes has been measured to move at the speed of c. https://www.sciencealert.com/speed-of-gravitational-waves-and-light-same (which is another reason why the electromagnetism of light is probably related to gravity). But it could be possible to construct "warp gates" this way. However we'd also be permanently changing the fabric of space in the process, which might be a complicated, chaotic, and messy thing to do. Last thing we want to do is send our Earth away from or into the sun.
An easy way to think about it would be by a vibrating string. Let's say that you cut in down its center, and separated the two strings (in a vacuum). They would both vibrate at the same frequency and amplitude no matter how far apart they are. If you measure one, does it affect the other? Let's say 100 feet apart you measure and it's vibrating at 110 Hz, then go and measure the other one, would you be surprised if it was also 110 Hz?
Because it is oscillating, we are continually changing the quantum alignment of that vacuum and would be presumably limited by the local speed limit of c in feeling those changes around the strings.
So if the other string measures 110Hz after the first string was measured at 110Hz, I'd say either the measurement didn't effect the frequency of the vibration or we have a non-local transmission of information between two different things in space.
However, in theory, since the oscillations of the strings could be thought of as a continually changing space, if we interact with a string, we'd theoretically alter how that space is changing, resulting in a different resulting frequency...because to measure something, we must interact with it, leading to an uncertainty principle whereby the more accurate our measurement, the more our energy gets transferred and the more changes we then also inadvertently make.
But let's say this doesn't happen anyway and it is still local. Then perhaps each string has compressed the space greatly between them so that it appears to us they are far apart when in reality they've created a compressed channel of space where they sit next to each other. I guess this could be thought of as another dimension and I could accept that. But I also don't know how that would work either. I've heard people speculate maybe it is like two black holes are linked together, but then all the space around the strings would be compressed as well. And we'd have to accept the fact that we can't measure it, despite that. So I don't know. I guess it's "possible", but ???. Does String Theory explain this theoretical mechanism? I'm going to be honest, I've never looked too much into String Theory; it seems too fanciful with stuff we don't know much about to begin with.
yesIf it is not in a textbook, then it is not physics? That is a great point.
Okay, I am talking about reality then, not physics. When I say that everything is entangled, I mean that it is all bound to a universal field.
yesIf it is not in a textbook, then it is not physics? That is a great point.
Okay, I am talking about reality then, not physics. When I say that everything is entangled, I mean that it is all bound to a universal field.
so unified field theory is quantum entanglement?
Aha of course should have know better. What was I thinking.
We are talking about hypothetical make believe stuff. Sure then whatever you say.
You know the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum entanglement is make-believe stuff too, right? It's just the most widely accepted interpretation of the observed phenomenon.
Is everything quantum entangled?Everything is entangled. Prove me wrong.
If you hair and her hair get tangled up together, then yes you are.I dont get it, so if i fall for some stranger i like on facebook or irl, am i entangled with her?
Everything is entangled. Prove me wrong.
yesIf it is not in a textbook, then it is not physics? That is a great point.
Okay, I am talking about reality then, not physics. When I say that everything is entangled, I mean that it is all bound to a universal field.
I'm sure you imagine it sometimes.I dont get it, so if i fall for some stranger i like on facebook or irl, am i entangled with her?
Is everything quantum entangled?Everything is entangled. Prove me wrong.
In a nutshell, no.
1) Particles can be entangled, as long as they remain in superposition and retain the information of their connectedness in the interference patterns they generate. Once they decohere, they lose their connected information, and the entanglement is gone.
2) Even when 2 particles are entangled, they are only entangled based on the possible results of one quantum interaction. The 2 particles then go off and have another interaction with 2 more particles, which generates more entanglement with all 4 particles. The 4 particles then go off and have another interaction with 4 more particles, which generates more entanglement with all 8 particles. As quantum interactions happen extremely quickly, you can have millions of interactions in a second. Consequently, by the time that one second has passed, the particles are now entangled with at least 2^1,000,000 particles, which is far more than the 10^97 elementary particles in the universe, which in turn means that each particle is directly & indirectly entangled with any one other particle 2(1,000,000-97) times.
So as long as entanglement exists, any 2 particles are so incredibly entangled with so many, that trying to identify the effects of one entanglement of 2 particles would be subsumed in all the other effects of all the other entanglements. So you'd just get a random pattern as if there was no entanglement.
3) Empirically, the universe would look very different to today, if everything was entangled.
Imagine if you switched on a light, and half the devices in your home also came on, because they were all entangled.
I'm sure you imagine it sometimes.I dont get it, so if i fall for some stranger i like on facebook or irl, am i entangled with her?
I'm sure you imagine it sometimes.I dont get it, so if i fall for some stranger i like on facebook or irl, am i entangled with her?
no everything you encounter in space time moment has a reason, hence entanglement.
for example two cars driven by two unrelated people met on road crossing , causing an event to happen.
things very far away or unrelated to each other seem to share some connection or field.
we must understand the conditions and cause of entanglement in order to prove it true.
What's a smartbulb?It's called a Smartbulb.
Everything is entangled. Prove me wrong.
Your brain is entangled with an alien quantum computer. Consequently your thoughts are a mirror reflection of the computers. Prove me wrong.