[Dean's World] Dave Price: Quantum Nonlocality And Relativity

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Posted by Dave Price:
Quantum Nonlocality And Relativity
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1187292875.shtml


   Glenn asks "Does quantum tunneling really violate [1]special
   relativity?" I think the answer is yes. [2]QM and relativity just
   [3]don't get along very well.
   There's an esoteric effect in relativity that demonstrates the problem
   with FTL information transfer. In [4]Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian
   Greene notes that according to relativity, a person ten billion
   light-years away can move centuries into your past or future simply by
   walking toward you or away from you, because the effect accumulates
   over distance. This isn't a problem for relativity, where nothing
   travels faster than light and no information can pass between the two
   that might violate causality. But enter quantum nonlocality, and now
   you have a problem. Your 10B-LY-distant friend could travel into your
   future by walking toward you, get some stock/lottery picks from your
   grandkids instantly via a nonlocality effect, walk away from you and
   give them to your grandparents.
   I think eventually we will find relativity's treatment of time must be
   lacking in some respects, or that Warren Buffet has been doing this
   for years.

References

   1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity
   2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics
   3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics#Attempts_at_a_unified_theory
   4. http://www.amazon.com/Fabric-Cosmos-Penguin-Press-Science/dp/0141011114/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-0848051-9480744?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187292549&sr=8-1