Re: quantum physics and Buddhism

I would say that an assembly of particles has an ensemble of light
cones. Perhaps that ensemble could be called a light conicoid.
Don

>Everything has a lightcone. It is the region of spacetime which you are
>allowed to travel--between the guardrails of where light can travel.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Don Nield [mailto:d.nield@auckland.ac.nz]
>>Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 7:39 PM
>>To: Alexanian, Moorad
>>Cc: Glenn Morton; SteamDoc@aol.com; asa@calvin.edu
>>Subject: Re: quantum physics and Buddhism
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>>As I understand the situation, it does not make sense to talk about a
>>"future cone" and "past cone" for anything other that a single particle.
>>Don
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>>>At one instant of time, part of our body must be in the future cone and
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>>part in the past cone. There can be nothing of us in space-like
>>separations. Our whole body must be causally connected.
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>>>Moorad
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Received on Sun Jun 19 21:01:08 2005