User talk:Scott Williams

Dear Bruce, I am the publisher of the thought experiment you responded to in the non locality discussion page. I am glad you found my idea interesting and took the time to come up with a solution but i still have two questions that only you can answer.

1. how did you come to the conclusion that the rope would gain enough momentum by three years (why not two)?

2. Could the expirment be edited to allow ftl communication? for example a small spring on the 1 meter drum to apply a small amount of negitive force. if no such edit could work then it would exemplify the divide between quantum and classical physics.

it's to bad though, i was hopeing to use the concept to make really high speed internet.if you can't find my please leave your reply on the non locality discussion page.

sincerly, Scott Williams.

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Dear Scott,

Actually, as soon as the rocket gets any distance away at all it is out of communication with you. That is to say, whatever it does (move, blow up, or whatever) it's going to take time for that information to get back to you, and the fact that there is a taut rope between you and the rocket doesn't change that. Pulling on the rope causes atoms in the rope to pull on other atoms farther away, and on in a long chain reaction, but the force that makes the atoms pull on each other is the same as light, and takes just as long as light to travel from one atom to the next. So yanking on the rope may stretch it, but the rocket won't be affacted in less than the time that it takes light to travel that far.

Ftl communication may be possible using quantum mechanics, but not with this type of experiment. It would be more instantaneous, like teleportation. John Cramer at University of Washington is trying to do it right now! BruceThomson (talk) 10:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)