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Superluminal
In astronomy, superluminal motion is the apparently faster-than-light motion seen in some radio
galaxies, quasars and recently also in some galactic sources calledmicroquasars. All of
these sources are thought to contain a black
hole, responsible for the ejection of mass at high velocities.
When first observed in the early
1980s, superluminal motion was taken to be a piece of evidence against quasars
having cosmological distances. Although a few astrophysicists still
argue in favor of this view, most believe that apparent velocities greater than
the velocity of light are optical
illusions and
involve no physics incompatible with the theory of special relativity.
lu·mi·nous
[loo-muh-nuhs]
adjective
1. radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
2. lighted up or illuminated; well-lighted: the luminous ballroom.
3. brilliant intellectually; enlightened or enlightening, as a writer
or a writer's works: a luminous concept; luminous prose.
4. clear; readily intelligible: a concise, luminous report.
1935’s
Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen Effect, aka The EPR Paradox
The EPR paradox is an early and influential critique
leveled against quantum
mechanics. Albert
Einstein and his
colleagues Boris
Podolsky and Nathan
Rosen (known
collectively as EPR) designed a thought experiment intended to reveal what they
believed to be inadequacies of quantum mechanics. To that end they pointed to a
consequence of quantum mechanics that its supporters had not noticed.
According to quantum mechanics, a
single system has its own wave function, its own unitary quantum-theoretical
description. If such a single system can be transformed into two individual
systems, doing so does not create two wave functions. Instead, theory indicates
that each system shares a single wave function.
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Light
speed, c = 3 × 108 meters per second, is the ultimate
speed limit of the universe. The well-tested physics orthodoxy of special
relativity tells us that nothing can go faster than c. When any massive object with
rest mass M (taken to be in energy units) has
velocity v=c (or relativistic velocity ß = v/c = 1), the object's mass-energy becomes
infinite. This is because the relativistic mass increase factor g = 1/(1 - ß2)1/2 has a zero in its denominator, and the
net mass-energy E is given by E =gM.
Therefore, it would require all the energy in the universe and more to
accelerate the object to a velocity of ß = 1.
If the
massive object could somehow be drop-kicked over the light-speed barrier so that v was
greater than c, then both g and E would become imaginary quantities (like [-1]½ ) because ß would be larger than 1 and (1 - ß2) would be
negative. This, says physics orthodoxy, is Nature's way of telling us that such
quantities have nothing to do with our universe, in which all measurable
physical variables like E must have real (not imaginary) numbers
as values.
A Less Wrong Explanation of Quantum Physics
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