Timeline for Action at a Distance [duplicate]
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| Jul 27, 2016 at 0:22 | comment | added | devhl | Based on the duplicate listing, it seems there are two opinions: time is zero for protons; it is meaningless to ask the question since no reference frame can be assigned. If there is no time, then the bigger picture I'm trying to get at is that we can explain action at a distance and the delayed choice experiment with a shockingly simple answer. If the only problem is the frame of reference, can it be so simple as there isn't one due to time and space being points? I'm not sure I understand what a reference frame is, but I can look it up. | |
| Jul 27, 2016 at 0:16 | comment | added | devhl | Based on the duplicate listing, it seems there are two opinions. | |
| Jul 25, 2016 at 16:28 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of Would time freeze if you could travel at the speed of light? | |
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| Jul 25, 2016 at 3:55 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 25, 2016 at 3:05 | comment | added | Bill Alsept | You're just passing one solution off for another one that's far more complicated. A photon coming from a distant star makes far more sense than trillions and trillions and trillions of waves coming from that star just to make One photon when it gets here. There needs to be something traveling from that start to here. As you would say can you write your name on that field ? I've never seen one. I still don't see why you need to introduce the wave to explain it. | |
| Jul 25, 2016 at 2:31 | comment | added | CuriousOne | @BillAlsept: A photon doesn't oscillate. the field does. A photon is just a small amount of energy and angular momentum. When electromagnetic fields interact, they can only do it by means of one of these small units. A rapidly oscillating field exchanges more energetic photons than a slowly oscillating field does. There is nothing complicated about this, people are just not reading the instructions that come with quantum field theory. | |
| Jul 25, 2016 at 2:23 | comment | added | Bill Alsept | @CuriousOne I agree these things don't happen instantly but why does it make more sense to take a single photon oscillating 600 trillion times per second and changing it into 600 trillion waves passing by for second? Isn't that much more complicated and harder to explain? | |
| Jul 25, 2016 at 2:00 | comment | added | CuriousOne | Photons don't move, at all. They are units of energy exchange between quantum fields. What "moves" are the fields and they move at the speed of light for the massless case. That these things don't happen instantly is a tested fact. That radiation doesn't form an observer system has little to do with that, though. | |
| Jul 25, 2016 at 1:23 | answer | added | peterh | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jul 25, 2016 at 0:56 | history | asked | devhl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |