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Given the idea that a photon experiences only one 'time-slice' from its perspective, and exists as one elongated unit that stretches from the point of emission to the point of absorption, what implications does this have on ideas of cause and effect?
I was thinking about the so-called 'spooky actions at a distance' effects of quantum entanglement, the apparent instantaneous communication between an entangled pair despite distance... in seeming violation of C.
Doesn't the 'time slice' idea of a photon's passage negate traditional ideas of cause and effect in its frame? Is it possible that, from our point of view, the change made to one end of the entangled pair snakes back down the 'tuning fork' of light pathways, to the moment of entanglement, and down the other path, to the other detector... in one exact time-slice, that of the photon? I'm having trouble seeing any holes in this idea, and it doesn't require any weird notions of 'nonlocality' or 'unreality'. It seems like good ol' fashioned Einsteinian hidden variables...
Too crazy or perfectly sensible?
It's an idea I had back in high school, but Physics Forums wasn't around then...
I was thinking about the so-called 'spooky actions at a distance' effects of quantum entanglement, the apparent instantaneous communication between an entangled pair despite distance... in seeming violation of C.
Doesn't the 'time slice' idea of a photon's passage negate traditional ideas of cause and effect in its frame? Is it possible that, from our point of view, the change made to one end of the entangled pair snakes back down the 'tuning fork' of light pathways, to the moment of entanglement, and down the other path, to the other detector... in one exact time-slice, that of the photon? I'm having trouble seeing any holes in this idea, and it doesn't require any weird notions of 'nonlocality' or 'unreality'. It seems like good ol' fashioned Einsteinian hidden variables...
Too crazy or perfectly sensible?
It's an idea I had back in high school, but Physics Forums wasn't around then...