Quote Originally Posted by anomalousirrelivance
relativity my friend. time is not the same time on the other end of that pole. very good thinking tho, you are outside of the box which is the best way anyone can be.

i dont know how to explain it in detail but you would never be able to communicate that far instantaneously so i would be hard.

quantum physics seeks to explain however, how one subatomic particle after coming in contacts with another particle will communicate as though there was no distance in between no matter how far the distance really is.

I kind of see what you mean. Relativity and quantum theory have always interested me, but I'm sure my understanding is relatively (no pun intended) amateur.

But what you said reminds me of how my friend, a physics major, explained how electrical current doesn't actually travel. How there's already a current from one end of the wire to the other, and the "traveling charge" is just one charged particle energizing the next that's in contact with it. Actually that's probably a poor explanation, but I'm tired, stoned, and it's been quite a while since I last discussed this.

I really like your quantum theory on it though. I know we haven't gone into any detail yet, but I've been learning about how things are linked at the quantum level, how multiple particles from the same source, separated by thousands (or any amount) of miles, will be affected at the same time in the same way if just one of those particles is affected.
I think this is why a lot of buddhists (including myself) really like quantum theory, because it tends to jive with the buddhist theory that consciousness, while an impermanent set of multiple complex processes, has a certain "essence" to it, created by it, that at the smallest level is connected with all other consciousnesses, and can bind to other consciousnesses upon death (due to samsara-driven karma). Ah but I digress, gettin' high always makes me go off on tangents.

And please, by all means, anybody feel free to help me out with my super-long iron bar problem!