Thursday, December 29, 2005

Circum-Christmas Musings

I'm reading John Gribbin's 'Schroedinger's Kittens' at the moment, which is giving me plenty to think about. For instance; at the moment of the Big Bang every piece of matter and energy in the universe was gathered in the same spot, was condensed into a quantum soup the size of the Plank volume before being thrown outward to form the universe as we see it today. Therefore it is easy to assume that every single electron in the universe is entangled with every other electron in the universe, and indeed with every other piece of matter/energy that exists. I've been pondering this in between binging on food and alcohol during the Christmas.
Einstein thought of 'spooky action at a distance' when he began to unravel the mysteries of four-dimensional spacetime - the Einstein Podsky Rosen paradox shows how two particles, no matter how far apart can communicate with each other; I think that particles at the far side of the universe can influence each other simply because they were once in the same place. The PWF theory will explain this further if I ever get to it.

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