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From: Jack Sarfatti
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 01:27
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 01:27
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We must distinguish several variations and options in trying to achieve quantum connection communication in the context of the insufficiency of the NO-GO FTL proof based upon unitarity of time evolution between measurments. 1. Transmitter has two detectors. The difference in the two receiver counter firing rates is then proportional to p(V') - p(H') = sin (2theta)cos(phi)cosb theta is the nonlocal misalignment between the two calcite rhombs at the two, generally non-simultaneous times (even in rest frame) of local interaction of each photon in the pair with its calcite. phi is phase shift of transmitter photon caused by phase-plate in the extraordinary path of transmitter interferometer before the recombiner. b is the relative phase shift between reflected and transmitted outputs of the transmitter beam recombiner (for the extraordinary and ordinary rays from transmitter calcite). The ordinary ray has be rotated to an extraordinary polarization by a 90 degree rotation from a half-wave plate before the recombiner. Conservation of energy at the passive transmitter recombiner demands that b = pi/2. Therefore the quantum connection receiver signal is zero on average, though not in the mean square fluctuation! It is not clear what would happen if we use an active (i.e. laser amplifier) transmitter beam splitter which might shift b away from pi/2 giving a nonvanishing mean signal at the receiver. This model has no missing factor of 2. All local probabilities add to 1 exactly on each side. 2. Transmitter has only one detector. This has missing factor of 2. Again mean signal appears to vanish because of sum over different diffraction- limited spots on extended photo-sensitive surface of transmitter detector which entail summing over all phase differences from the two output ports of the recombiner. However, this is a macroscopic geometric effect of path differences. It is a classical contingent factor not part of the microscopic NO-GO proofs base on unitary transformations. Similalry for cosb in case 1. It is not clear is a clever phase-compensation plate (perhaps an active inverted atomic population in the material as well) cannot extract a useful quantum connection signal in the mean. Again the signal can be extracted in the local receiver fluctuations - the signal is literally in the noise which is modulated by quantum action at a distance. Remember the Unruh work showing that Minkowski vacuum is like a BCS pair correlated state of virtual Rindler photons corresponding to detectors in uniform accelerated motion detecting blackbody radiation in vacuum similar to Hawking radiation. This suggests a curious connection to be explored later. In accord with Brian Josephson's suggestion in an OMNI magazine interview - our mental machinery at the molecular level that we experience as ideas, feelings, perceptions may be connected with Casimir zero point forces in chemical cage "cavities". That is, we may be sensitive to modulations in the zero-point fluctuations via information flows between Rindler photons in pair correlated states. We also have Penrose's idea that decoherence of quantum pure states is a low energy graviton effect in which quantum gravity shows itself way above the Planck scale in everyday life.
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!pacbell.com!well!sarfatti From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) Subject: ftl signals & Josephson, Unruh, Penrose Message-ID: <Bx2EqH.8FM@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 01:27:53 GMT Lines: 61