From: ABlainey@aol.com
Date: Sat Jan 18 2003 - 19:13:27 MST
Here is an idea I have had, prompted in part by recent posts about parallel
universes.
As it would seem that more scientists are buying into the idea that all
things exist in parallel universes and this helps explain a few quirky
happenings in the quantum world. I began thinking about experiments that have
shown strange things happening with electrons travelling through very thin
wires or PCB tracks.
In cases where the wire is thin enough, the electrons sometime vanish or jump
impossible distances to nearby wires. Thus breaking conventional laws. I am
not sure who noticed this behaviour. Hopefully one of you will have some
links or a better idea of exactly what happened.
Anyhoooo.
My theory is that the electrons simply take the path of least resistance, as
per conventional law. but this path includes the jump through to and back
from another universe. So their easiest path from wire A to wire B in our
universe may be via point Z in a parallel universe of even several jumps
through several universes.
I equate it to trying to walk across a city. The easiest path may not be
straight down the road, but may be much easier if you take the subway system.
You may be able to get a direct train or you may have to change to get to
your destination. The end result is that you have still made an easier
journey.
The one thing that bothers me about universe jumping is the energy involved.
I would expect the electron to need more energy to jump from A to Z to B than
it would need for A to B. Then I though about the possible ways that the
electron could make savings.
In the same way that the subway will get you there with less resistance from
Traffic or street lights. It will also get you there quicker. This may be one
way the tunnelling electron could save energy for the jump between realities.
If the process of jumping has a time dilating effect that could have an
impact on the energy needed for the journey. This may need some fairly hefty
maths to prove.
It could also be true that in the alternate universe there is a wire with
much better conductive properties than the wire we are using. This could
provide a superconductive short circuit that the electron needs to jump from
one wire to the other. The total cost of the route from wire A to wire B is
less than the cost of continuing to travel along wire A as we expect it to.
Does any of this make sense to anyone else? (One of my favourite sayings)
The next thought to pop into my head was that if the above theory is true,
then we must be able to use this to our advantage. In the field of
electronics we are searching for faster, more discrete devices that will give
us greater computational power. If all things already exist then these
devices already exist. So can we use them?
Well, how is this for an idea. The 'Blainey machine.' We build for example a
microprocessor with architecture that omits the devices we really want. If we
wanted super fast transistors, we leave them out. We still have the tracks
that would have connected them to the rest of the processor circuit, but we
have effectively made a non-functioning super chip. Logic says that when we
switch it on, nothing will happen. I say that something will happen (head on
block, get the axes ready) and that some electrons will make it through the
chip and exhibit the characteristics that we require. My theory is that they
will find the least expensive route through the circuit. This route will take
them out of our universe and through others that contain less expensive
routes. Some of these will include the super fast transistors that we need.
Now the problem is 'what percentage will go through simple superconducting
wires and what will go through the super transistors?'
If we build it, we will know.
Another question is what percentage would jump out of our universe never to
return because they found a cheaper or more attractive destination?
Yikes. We should also be able to measure this. More importantly. If electrons
can go out, we can also steal them from other universes. Think of the
possibilities.
I would love to get my hands on a scanning tunnelling microscope so that I
could build something at atomic scale to test the theories. does anyone have
one spare? <g>
I think a small Blainey machine could be built, but It would take yet more
hefty maths and some very sound logic to plan.
The more I think about it, the more the oddities of quantum mechanics seem to
be within reach of understanding. I think i'm still some way off though :o)
Alex
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