User:RaistlinofSolace/The Lorquet-Chao Effect

The Lorquet-Chao Effect ... The Ngouabi Union of relativity and quantum mechanics is based in gravity. One outcome of this is that when a sufficiently large object departs from a sufficiently large gravity well, a 'sister particle' is made. The mass/energy comes from the objects themselves, proportional to their sizes. Thus, no energy is created or destroyed.

The 'sister particle' (a perfect duplicate of the departing object) is only partially bound to spacetime. Its location in time and space varies pseudorandomly (sometimes even moving backwards), relative to how the original is influenced by gravity. This pseudorandomness is unpredictable, like true randomness, but frequently involves the time dimension jumping a great deal while the other three remain unchanged (relative to nearby gravity sources), or the other three changing dramatically while time remains unchanged. Sometimes instead of 'jumping', the effect is of acceleration or deacceleration. The degree of motion is similarly unpredictable, though seemingly correlated to the size of the gravitational well.

No experiments have yet been done to determine what happens if a duplicate is made of a duplicate, though there are numerous theories.

In order for the effect to be triggered, the ratio between the mass of the departing object and the surface gravity of the object it's leaving must be between approximately 2,000 and 200,000 kg*sec^2/m. Thus, the effect is triggered by an Apollo lunar module leaving the moon (2,800 kg*sec^2/m) or a DALL leaving Mars (29,500 kg*sec^2/m), but it would not be triggered by a Saturn V leaving Earth (310,000 kg*sec^2/m).

Once a wave or particle has interacted with (read: collapsed a wave function of) one of the two objects, it can no longer interact with the other object. Thus, the two objects cannot see each other (light reflected from one will pass right through the other) or be gravitationally attracted to each other (gravitons from one will pass right through the other), and can even pass through each other (since all particles in one object have interacted with other particles in the object, they cannot electromagnetically repulse particles in the other object).

This property wound up proving the philosophy of determinism correct, as when space vessels are subjected to this, the crews on both vessels act completely identically until the original is acted upon by a strong gravitational field. Since this means the two vessels perfectly overlap, the only way to distinguish this has happened without adding gravity is that radio broadcasts back from the vessel are twice as strong (since two broadcasts are occurring), and for the crew, broadcasts from the planet are half as strong (the two overlapping radar dishes are each collecting only half the power of the original message).