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Subject: Re: EFLOP architectures: when and for how much?
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Date: 28 Oct 90 20:43:22 GMT
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In article <1990Oct27.235949.6451@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes...
>Um, references please.
  I'll try to dig some up.  I seem to remember an article in scientific
american (or another broad scope journal) in the past year or two about a
research showing two particles in 'communication' even they were outside of
each other's time cone.  I believe they were using the exclusion principle. If
anyone can refer me to this, it would save me some time in the local library.

>If you believe in (a) cause and effect, and (b) special relativity --

Special relativity does not produce the same answers as quantum dynamics.  As
correct as (general) relativity seems on a macro scale, it fails at the micro
scale.  What often trips people up is thinking of an electrons (or photons) as
a particles, when in fact, they are not.  They are waves. (Chemists and physists
tend to disaggre with each other here.)  The achiral nature of ammonia
chemistry is a  simple proof of this.  (If electrons were truely classical (or
relativistic) one would expect ammonia to be pyramid shapped, and thus show 
handed or chiral geometry, which would show up as sterospecificy.  Ammonia
chemistry does not show sterospecificy, thus is achiral, thus not pyrimid
shaped, but rather planar.)

In the ammonia ion the 'reactive' electron is a wave form that exists in a
cloud both above the plane and below the plane of the ion at the same time. 
The electron will never exist anywhere between the two clouds.  As the wave
form exists both above and below the clouds other molecules are free to react
with either side of the ion, which will fix the electron wave form to one
side of the ion.  If the 'electron' actually moved, there would have to be
a conservation of momentum, which would mean that new molecule would have to
move away from the reaction site, even if the sum of the momentum of the two
ions were zero.  Which would require the total energy in an adiabadic
(closed) system to increase.  Which would break the second law of
thermodynamics.  Which would would make things very hot indeed.

Hopefully more later.

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