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Comment Re:Consistent Histories? (Score 1) 365

In this case, you have to "measure" the particle in a particular way to retrieve the energy, and that way depends on what happened to the particle on the other side while the energy is being "pumped in" (so you cannot know in advance).

So you take a trillions and trillions and trillions of particles, and start measuring them randomly at once... Eventually you get lucky, and one of them gives you a return on energy. Poof, instant information transfer, but without having the data that you "needed" to do it. No waiting in line!

Comment Re:Linearization (Score 1) 553

It's because closer to the bottom of the gravity well, the planck length actually decreases. It's hard to visualize, but imagine a set of gridpoints that must always exist, and when you drop a ball of mass into it, it pushes the gridoints near it closer together, since it can't cover them up. The distance between those points gets closer together. Things can only travel from planck point to planck point (nothing can exist outside of one of these points), and since the ones near the mass are closer together, there is a tendency for things to strike those points more often, and thus the motion of the object appears to bend towards the mass.

I just made that up last night. Nobel prize please!

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