[ExI] wormholes vs. nonlocal correlation

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Tue Feb 17 22:23:31 UTC 2009


It is known that wormholes could in principle be used as time 
machines; by moving one end of the hole at relativistic speeds and 
then returning it to its place of departure, the mouths would be in 
much the same place at two different times. I wonder if quantum 
nonlocality also implies interesting contortions with time? If one 
entangled particle is idled (inside a cold sodium or silicon trap 
that slows it to near immobility)# while the other moves off in 
vacuum at c, could this lead to any peculiar time-twisting possibilities?

Damien Broderick

# e.g. <http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v397/n6720/full/397559a0.html>
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/21/japanese_light_trap/> etc




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