From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 09:59:49 MST
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Bret Kulakovich wrote:
>
> With the distance of successful entanglement growing, could we use a
> sampling group of entangled electrons from a stormfront to predict
> outcomes to a higher degree of accuracy. E.g. one electron m^3 for a
> large area, with the other half of the pair in a volume within a lab
> space. A certain granularity of the storm expressed in the lab.
Remember that entanglement is not control - you can influence the
other end of a pair, but you cannot send information through this
influence. So you cannot gain any information about the storm and
you cannot send any information into it by measuring on your
electrons. The best you can do is to affect measurement
probabilities of observers within the stormfront in such a way
that when you compare notes after the storm you see correlations.
> Also, being that only the smallest difference need be made within a
> cloud formation to completely change the nature of a front, could
> tunneling be used to initiate chain reactions in the other direction.
> Impart the characteristics within the lab to alter the goingson
> within the cloud structure. Charge ions, change polarities, et cetera.
See above. Also, sensitive dependence on initial
conditions isn't a recipe for magically dispelling storms, it
means that even an effect that would on its own cause the storm to
dissipate due to a highly complex trajectory through phase space
would be unstable to any external influence - somebody sneezing
would disrupt it, and noise is everywhere.
Quantum mechanics and chaos are weird, but they are not magic.
Magic is supposed to cause effects according to what you want. But
QM and chaos instead cause effects *influenced* by what you do,
but not correlated with what you want.
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