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My time machine probably won't work, says US physicist
This is a serious story about a serious scientist who hopes to be able to send a signal to the past - so that, in effect, the signal arrives before it is sent. Dr. John Cramer is researching in the fields of quantum physics, and more precisely, looking for evidence of what is called "retrocausality."
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The scientist - from the University of Washington - is mostly unequivocal about his work:
"It doesn't seem like it should work, but on the other hand, I can't see what would prevent it from working," Dr. John Cramer told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Then, a few paragraphs down, he admits: "It probably won't work."
The reason for all this shilly-shallying is a problem that has driven physicists mad: the infamous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox.
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at 15:00 on November 16th, 2006
I received this msg from a guy who really knows how to write a terrific msg:
I'm afraid you have me at a loss. The only things I know about Quantum
Physics are that it has the words "Quantum" and "Physics" in the title,
they can be used to create time vortexes allowing me to travel through
the space/time continuum, and it it can potentially be used to undo the
damage inflicted on us by Kevin Federline (but this has yet to be
proven). So I'd say you'd be hard pressed to find any of the photos I
have published to have anything to do with quantum physics.
Perhaps if you could explain to me how you intend to use the photo in
question, which is basically a picture of my daughter talking to a
couple of well-informed cats. Last I checked, this was pretty far from
anything dealing with quantum physics.