Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Apparent Superluminal Speeds in Evanescent Fields, Quantum Tunnelling and Quantum Entanglement

However, once the wave front has reached some distant point in space, then propagation may actually seem to take place along this wave with superluminal speed, yet involving no conflict with special relativity. Quantum entanglement – Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” – is one famous, and now experimentally verified example of propagation at such apparent superluminal speed, but which is here explained within the framework of special relativity. This then at the same time also leads to a deeper understanding of the limitation of the recently proposed clock-hypothesis in special relativity, and also provides an illustration of the mechanism involved in wave-particle duality.

Website:  http://www.arjonline.org/physical-sciences/american-research-journal-of-physics/

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