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Albert Michelson
« on: October 15, 2024, 09:55:42 AM »
Albert Michelson measures with almost absolute precision the constant - limit of the universe, speed of photo (c). What would a possible instantaneous transfer of the photon mean? Which concepts would be strengthened and which would be weakened?

Is this correct: There would be a perfect superposition of two points at any time. It is inconsistent with the theory of relativity. The whole theory of quantum mechanics would collapse. It would imply that light/information could travel from one point in the universe to another without taking time to do so. This idea contradicts the principles of causality and the theory of relativity, which holds that information and energy cannot travel faster than the speed of light.
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Re: Albert Michelson
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2024, 03:23:21 PM »
you are correct since technically any amount of movement without time would yield an infinite velocity, breaking any logical theory. However, not all quantum mechanics would collapse, though many factors considered standard would. For instance, Causality constraints would be entirely broken under the Copenhagen and pilot-wave theories, while the many worlds theory would say that any reflection of restraint via a constant would be negligible at best and entirely random, which in itself fails to constitute the ideas of true entanglement properly.

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