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Darren New escreveu:
> Warp wrote:
>> (And no, I haven't the faintest idea what "spin" means. I just read
>> wikipedia. :P )
>
> "Spin" is a fascinating concept related to symmetry. A "spin 1/2"
> particle means if you turn it 180 degrees, it looks the same. So a "two
> of diamonds" playing card would be "spin 1/2" - it looks the same right
> side up as upside down. (Discounting, of course, that it's 3D, so has a
> back that's different from the front.)
>
> An "ace of spades" has "spin 1" - if you turn it 180 degrees, the spade
> in the middle will be pointing down instead of up, so you have to turn
> it 360 degrees.
>
> And yes, a "spin 2" particle really is as strange as it sounds. You have
> to turn it around 720 degrees before it's symmetric again. Don't ask me
> how that works out.
Wonderful explanation. So far, from my days of chemestry in college,
all I (thought I) knew was that spin 1 was an electron spinning in one
direction and spin -1 in the other direction, whatever it be. :P
>> If something moves to the other side of the cosmological horizon (from
>> our perspective), is the information "lost"?
>
> Maybe. I don't know. It can't affect us, but it can affect other things
> in the local area. Technically, the particles *could* affect things a
> spacelike distance away, which is what all the yadda about "quantum
> teleportation" is about.
quantum entanglement! Beam me into a blackhole! :D
>> I think that you would notice everything being warped.
Including your body! :P
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