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In reply to the discussion: Quantum Entanglement, Dark Counts, Coincidence Detection [View all]mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)76. Thank you! I'm a bit surprised at the attention it's gotten as of late
I think it's a year old, but in the last couple of days, there have been a couple new responses.
Physicists still don't have any real idea what time is. Their best guess is that spacetime is an unchanging "block" where everything is already laid out, and our impression just moves through this (static) landscape. That whole part about perception is dismissed as an illusion. My hope is that, if this experiment works, we'll have a tool with which to probe time and see what its properties are, like whether the past is a write-once ROM or can be overwritten.
And I kind of suck as a machinist
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knowing they exist and know what everyone else calls them are two different things.
nebenaube
Jul 2013
#6
I don't see why what I need would be any bigger then say a .22 slug (for lack of a better reference)
nebenaube
Jul 2013
#37
Sorry for he late reply, bu yeah, I've been working with an optical breadboard
mindwalker_i
May 2014
#79
My intuition tells me the past and the future are rather symmetrical about any local present.
hunter
May 2014
#75