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From: chris@politik.UUCP (Christopher Seiwald)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: new directions in physics/cs
Message-ID: <42@politik.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Nov-84 05:07:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 25 05:07:00 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Nov-84 07:37:34 EST
Reply-To: chris@politik.UUCP (Christopher Seiwald)
Organization: Clinton Reilly Campaigns, San Francisco
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>
>	"Schrodinger's Cat" book(*) he claims that Terry Clark at the
>	University of Sussex has created a "quantumatom" in a ring
>	of superconducting material roughly 1/2 cm across. This
>	object is supposed to mimic the behaviour of true quantum
>	particles in that a change in state is *instantaneous* over
>	the entire ring. 
>
> 		gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Greg Rawlins)

Sounds like an FTL farce to me.  Am I wrong, or can information (e.g.
the change in state) travel no faster than light, since the information
carrier (e.g. electrons, photons) itself is so bound?
-- 
Christopher Seiwald
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