Comments on: Human eye could detect spooky action at a distance

By: Niven42

Niven42 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:45:04 +0000

You should read what Stephen Lehar has to say about photons and conciousness. In _The World Inside Your Head_, not only does he propose that we experience reality completely inside our brains, but that the virtual reality within our cortex is the ONLY reality there is. As an extension to this, we can infer that the entire spectrum of reality exists completely within our brains, and there is nothing (just an empty void) outside of our own experiences. Heavy stuff. Wonder what will happen to the first entwined human…

By: Niven42

Niven42 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:37:43 +0000

Anytime you use a mechanical linkage to transmit data, the data is sent from one end of the link to the other at instantaneous speed. Given a long enough linkage, you can theoretically send information a long distance at greater-than-light speed. These types of action at-a-distance phenomena are happening around us all the time, it’s just that we aren’t aware of them.

Entanglement is real, as anyone who has observed diffraction patterns can readily tell you.

By: Resofactor

Resofactor — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:07:16 +0000

Quantum Entanglement has absolutely nothing to do with FTL communications know-how.

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:44:06 +0000

Is homotanglement less gay than mantanglement?

I think this is actually exciting because maybe we can start testing all the crazy consciousness-quantum theory theories put forth by Penrose and others!

By: grunties

grunties — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:03:29 +0000

“Mantanglement? Men only? And they wonder why physics can’t attract and keep women in the field.”

You are not railing against sexism, as you appear to believe. You are railing against your own lack of understanding of English.

But don’t you worry your pretty little head about it, let the men do all the thinking and we’ll be fine.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:22:51 +0000

I agree with Hex.

However, I can see why mantanglement was used in this instance. ‘man’ is one syllable ‘en’ is one syllable and they both end in the same sound. The author was trying to get a word as close to entanglement as possible that mixed in people, none of the other options had this quality.

It really is a nightmare for gender conscious grammarians that woman and man don’t have a single grammatical root that doesn’t infer the preclusion of one sex.

By: Ozra

Ozra — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:12:41 +0000

@Anthony, maybe I missed something? “homo” means “same”, compare homogeneous, homosexual, etc.

@Henry, LOL!

And why, there’s the word, how much more exact can you get?: homotanglement! Didn’t sound half as gay as mantanglement. Everybody happy now? (oops! not all the gay attenders who now think I’m homophobic for de-gaying the expression!)

Nah, enough of this.

Well back to the more scientific side of things (or not): I’ve actually seen radio waves. And soundwaves. And the sky falling – slowly. And, yes I had ingested a fairly big amount of mushrooms. Beautiful experience. Zooming in on trees and seeing the relational differences of frequency of the waveforms. That’s what I saw when walking in the forest.

They really should incorporate mushrooms into these experiments 😀

I also experienced two time-speeds from different senses! While still being syncronized in time (how’s that even possible, I tried and tried to analyze the experience). Woa, mushrooms is the shit 🙂 It’s quantum shit!

Getting off topic.

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:38:12 +0000

When they named our species homo(=man) sapiens they didn’t leave out the women.

Or to be on the safe side, just use the word “Homo” instead.

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By: Osame Kinouchi

Osame Kinouchi — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:50:54 +0000

When we say that humans can detect a bunch of fotons, it means that not only that a retinal ganglionar cell fires due to such fotons, but also that the psychological sensation of to view a small light spark is activated after visual processing. So, perhaps it is possible to have psychological entangled states (or not, it is important to calculate the duration of the entangled state and if visual processing destroy or could amplify it (in duration and number of particles).