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But we are not close to a black hole. No. There is no “maybe” What happens near a black hole does not happen in intergalactic space. Because it’s been shown that it can be ignored. No effect that we need to worry about.

We don’t have to guess, because we can quantify these effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation “proximity to Earth's gravitational well will cause a clock on the planet's surface to accumulate around 0.0219 fewer seconds over a period of one year than would a distant observer's clock” A year is 3.15 x 10^7 sec, so this is around a part in 10^9

! Moderator Note Mainstream threads require mainstream responses. Not your speculation.

Using “individual” in this way is ambiguous at best. Individual particle? No. I said they are in an undetermined state. You can only choose the correlation. Individual pair? Why not just say pair?

You have not defined what “our” point of view is. Are we near the black hole, or are we in intergalactic space, or somewhere else? If “we” means an observer on earth, then it’s almost the same as intergalactic space.

The answer is “yes” If you measure the particle states and they do not have the expected correlation, you know there had been a prior interaction. This is the idea behind quantum key encryption. If there was no prior interaction, you can infer that the state is undetermined. You can choose the correlation. e.g. photons with the same polarization state or orthogonal polarization states. You can’t choose the state of one particle, since the individual states are undetermined.

! Moderator Note Which was not a topic of the thread. If you wish to discuss this, open your own thread to do so.

Virtual particles in “empty” space appear in pairs, owing to conservation laws. Particle and antiparticle. They are not real, though. They’re a calculation tool, part of a model. (The notion of “borrowed” energy is an attempt to explain quantum physics in classical terms, but that’s another discussion)

! Moderator Note The topic is SCOTUS leaks, not the details of the cases.

IIRC posts in a few areas don’t contribute to post count (e.g. the lounge). There are a few thing that require (or used to require) a minimum count, and we didn’t want the (usually) non-technical conversation to apply.

No, unless you have an exact match (like why the fundamental charge and the conversion of eV to Joules are the same number - because they have a common basis) then it’s accidental. You could take combinations of other constants and scale them to get a custom unit system and have an equality. The choice of the value of a meter and the second are arbitrary. There’s nothing special about most mks/SI units

I took the statement to mean that entanglement violates relativity. Since you’ve clarified that this is not the case, my apologies, and please disregard my comment.

No, it’s not. If you wish to discuss it, open your own thread on entanglement, so your misconceptions can be addressed. Entangled particles are in undetermined states until detected, so how is anything “encoded”?

h=? kqc J-s (not J/s) =? J/K * Coul * m/s J cancels. Nothing else does. They are not equal They can’t be equal if it depends on the unit system.

OK, does h have the same units as kqc? Are they numerically the same if you use cgs units?

You forgot to include the units.

Your idea was considered and rejected. There’s no way for the energy of the light to exceed the mass energy of the source that emitted it, and that energy is actually a small fraction of the mass energy. Light would not form a halo as is required if dark matter. Repeating your vague claims doesn’t change this. ! Moderator Note Since you’ve not offered up any analysis, which required, and there’s no point in re-hashing any of this, we’re done. Don’t re-introduce this without a thorough mathematical treatment

What does the OP have to do with how long America will can last?

I don’t see how you get your diagrams from this.

Sure, but one has to recognize that any individual might not see a direct benefit from any particular bit of spending - my tax money supports infrastructure on the other side of the country that I will never use - and that economic benefit isn’t the only metric to apply. e.g. GPS makes life better for a lot of people, even if it’s not putting money in their pocket.

Compare the results from bouncing off Mercury and Venus. That tells you how much of an effect there is. Or look at the equation, and do the math. Also, it’s only the light in the tiny region near the sun that’s affected.

With Venus being on the far side of the sun. Also done with Mercury. The delay is only appreciable close to the sun. If the path is grazing, the delay is 200 microseconds. If the path is 35 solar radii away, it drops to 60 microseconds. So yes, the additional distance to Venus (or beyond) adds nothing within measurable precision. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shapiro-time-delay-EN.svg

No. “imagine” is inappropriate here. You need to calculate the amount, using mainstream physics. That’s depicting what happens near a black hole. Most of the volume of a galaxy is not made up of a black hole. “The Schwarzschild radius of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way is approximately 12 million kilometres” (less than a light-minute) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius By how much? The Shapiro delay from the sun was 200 microseconds. Do that 20000 times, and you get a delay of 4 seconds. The rules of speculations require more rigor than you are providing.

What are the physics equations that lead to the circles and dots in your diagram?