On Jun 11, 10:17*pm, Pentcho Valev wrote:
On Jun 11, 9:43*pm, kp wrote:



On Jun 11, 8:29*pm, Pentcho Valev wrote:

http://arxivblog.com/?p=460
"Entanglement is the strange and beautiful property of certain quantum
particles to become so deeply linked that they share the same
existence. According to quantum theory, that link should be maintained
whatever the distance between the particles, whether the width of an
atom or the diameter of the universe. This led Einstein to claim that
the instantaneous effects of entanglement would lead to “spooky action-
at-a-distance” in violation of special relativity which prevents
faster-than-light signals. Nobody knows how the different predictions
of relativity and quantum mechanics can be resolved."

http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
Bryan Wallace: "I expect that the scientists of the future will
consider the dominant abstract physics theories of our time in much
the same light as we now consider the Medieval theories of how many
angels can dance on the head of a pin or that the Earth stands still
and the Universe moves around it."

Pentcho Valev


Where exactly are the incompatible absurdities?

The theory that predicts that the bug is both squashed and not
squashed:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.../bugrivet.html

and that a 80m long pole can be trapped inside a 40m long barn:

http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ph...barn_pole.html
"These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors
at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a
switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in
the barn....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an
instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you
close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open
them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the
contracted pole shut up in your barn."

is incompatible with the theory that predicts teleportation:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar...-possible-next...
Michio Kaku: "Perhaps the most tangible of the far-out technologies
suggested by Einstein’s theories is teleportation. The key lies in a
celebrated 1935 paper (doc) by Einstein and his colleagues Boris
Podolsky and Nathan Rosen. Ironically, in their paper they proposed an
experiment—the so-called EPR experiment, named for the three authors—
to kill off, once and for all, quantum theory’s introduction of
probability into physics. Quantum theory requires probability because
its formulas do not directly describe things like the precise position
of particles. Instead, the formulas describe waves, known as
Schrödinger waves. The amplitude of the waves at a particular location
translates to the probability that a particle will be found at that
point. As the EPR experiment pointed out, according to quantum theory,
if two particles—electrons, for example—are initially vibrating in
unison (a state called coherence), they can remain in wavelike
synchronization even if they are separated by a large distance. Two
electrons may be trillions of miles apart, but there is still an
invisible Schrödinger wave connecting them, like an umbilical cord. If
something happens to one electron, some of that information is
immediately transmitted to the other, faster than the speed of light.
This concept—that particles vibrating in coherence have some kind of
deep connection—is called quantum entanglement."

Pentcho Valev


As far as SR goes there us nothing incompatible in these examples.
They maybe counter intuitive but that doesn't mean they are
unphysical.

kp