Distance and entanglement

[Fred56]

Does anyone have any ideas about superposition (entanglement) and why distance or separation is an imaginary/non-real quantity to it?

[swansont]

Conservation of angular momentum (to use the standard example) does not depend upon distance

[Fred56]

Indeed, this appears to be a somewhat inexplicable phenomenon. I found a paper that looks at the "dark matter" angle -that entanglement is due to a loss of information to a "dark horizon" -something like that. Here's a snippet:

 

"Our key idea is this. The larger the cosmic horizon expands, the [more] information about vacuum disappears behind the horizon, because an observer out of the horizon sees an expanding spherical horizon eating up more and more space as it expands. This information loss (in the form of increase of dark entropy) at the horizon requires energy consumption according to ...Landauer’s principle. If this energy increases as the universe expands, it can play [the] role of dark energy. This is in concordance with the famous slogan in quantum information science '“information is physical!”'." -Jae-Weon Lee, Jungjai Lee, Hyeong-Chan Kim 1 Sep 2007

[swansont]

I fear you are mixing and matching phenomena here.

[Fred56]

Yes, I've posted some of these Korean guys stuff in other threads, but it is research. (I posted a comment about this too). We have no idea if dark energy really exists, so perhaps I should have left it alone. It isn't interesting that this team thinks they have a mathematical connection?

[iNow]

We have no idea if dark energy really exists, so perhaps I should have left it alone.

These might help clear some thoughts for you. Enjoy.

 

http://supernova.lbl.gov/~evlinder/sci.html

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/dark-energy.html

http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_astro/dark_matter.html

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/mysteries_l1/dark_energy.html

 

 

Courtesy of the explanation in today's Astronomy Picture of the Day.

[Infinitus]

I will be the first to admit that my knowledge of dark matter is vauge at best; however I will note that the researchers of Korea are not exactly the best source for research. Do not mistake me for being rascist but there has been more that one case of falsification of research documents made by Korean researchers (Usually in cellular research). I would double check the source of the article before I made any speculations.