We tend to think there's superluminal or instantaneous communication between two parts of the universe when performing quantum experiments, because we observe strange correlations for quanta at those places.
But we don't need to go beyond the speed of light for faster than light communication, because whenever something is seen as traversing the universe at c, it feels it's in fact simultaneously at all the possible points of the journey. All the things we detect travelling at c experience instant correlations with other carriers from the same emission event, forming a spacetime network that spreads through the universe at c for us, but feel as one simultaneous ensemble from their point of view. These correlated quantum networks “dissolve” quickly as they mingle with matter, creating the coherent reality all observers around emission point detect.
If you are mind blown by the existence of quantum correlations and instant “communication” between distant places, imagine if a force carrier were told that its point/instant of existence can contain a complete universe for others… That's mind-blowing! Seeing the universe this way, the idea of extra dimensions becomes almost naive.
The universe is a vast network of interconnected nodes, and each node sees parts of this network in a different configuration depending on its speed and position respect all other things moving out there. But for carriers at c, we are the “angels on the head of a pin”, dancing on extra dimensions they don't even feel.
...so if "things" are traveling at C, then it seems that there is no 'traveling' involved at all,...if they are traveling at C, therefore; everything is happening at once and there is no space or time if something is 'traveling' at C. Make sense or no? So C is just a descriptor word so that people can follow along...?
ReplyDeleteThat's more or less what I wanted to say: We "see" entities travelling at C in our space-time, but they experience no space-time at all. So C is the ultimate space-time "compression" factor, instead of a velocity. The "speed" we see is just our way of experiencing things that are taking place at the same point of existence, but appear spread on our space-time matrix of causal relations.
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