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On Apr 1, 10:12 am, Uncle Al <Uncle...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
> In 100,00 words or fewer, tell us how to measure absolute speed.

With an absolute speedometer. :)

BTW, 3 numbers matched in the last go round, and 2 with 1 digit each
matched. Each time, it's getting better. 3 wins only $7. That's still
not large enough yet to make it worthwhile. Once it gets up to 4
matches on consecutive dry runs, I'm shelling out a buck for a
Powerball ticket. The key being *consecutive*.

Here's something to consider. If the cosmic horizon is finite (as most
versions of cosmological singularity theorems imply it should be) then
this provides a natural cutoff for quantum state spaces -- entirely
analogous to the cutoff seen in the Hawking-Unruh effect.

Then each event in spacetime is associated with a finite cosmological
horizon, a state space cutoff and (thus) each pure state is actually
an improper mixture.

Where the rubber hits the pavement is here: points along a timelike
world line have mutually nested cosmological horizons, future points
have horizons that include their predecessors' horizons as proper
subsets. The relation between the corresponding state spaces is an
INCOMPLETE Bogoliubov transform. But it's one of a particularly
special form: a state that is deterministic in an earlier point's
state space remains deterministic in a later point's state space,
while those deterministic in the later point's state space is
generally non-deterministic in the state space of the earlier point.

Consequently, (a) time appears to progress in such a way that future
appears as non-deterministic when seen from an earlier point in time,
while it becomes progressively more and more deterministic and more
into focus as you approach the time, itself; and (b) state space
evolution is, in effect, non-unitary! (Bingo!)

This progressive sharpening of focus may be of such a nature that you
can begin extracting a signal from the static in advance of the event.

I saw the Canada vs. US game called the Friday before the event.
Except I didn't see who scored the goal in overtime, only the score
3-2 OT. Even the words of the announcer, modulo a minor change (I
heard "the greatest game in the history of the sport" but he said "the
greatest game in Canadian sports history"). That extra word "Canadian"
would have given a hint on who was set to win the game. The same thing
happened with the Super Bowl each of the last 2 years: the score at
the 2 minute warning is clear several days in advance, but the final
plays of the game go out of focus.