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I can't provide a coherent explanation of Relativity in one little HN box, but what I can say is that Special Relativity is pretty easy to learn and understand
by nessus42 14y ago
I can't provide a coherent explanation of Relativity in one little HN box, but what I can say is that Special Relativity is pretty easy to learn and understand if you're willing to put in a bit of effort and deal with some high-school level algebra.
General Relativity is much much more difficult, but once you understand Special Relativity, a lay-person's understanding of GR gets the job done for most purposes.
Re quantum entanglement, no it doesn't imply that data travels faster than light. The versions of QM where the probability waves collapse might, but in the Many Worlds interpretation, which is probably the most popular interpretation now among physicists and philosophers of science, the probability waves never collapse, and so there is nothing to transmit.
In the Copenhagen interpretation, one might argue that the probability wave collapsing transmits information all along that wave instantaneously, but if so, this happens under the covers of the universe. There's no way for anyone to use this feature of QM to transmit usable information from one place to another at faster than the speed of light.