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Fewluvatuk t1_is1rdcz wrote

I have a question about Quantum Entanglement.

If I understand things correctly, massless particles travel at the speed of light, and at the speed of light, within the frame of that particle, time is frozen.

If time is frozen within the frame of the particle from the moment it is.... created?.... then is this the explanation for why Quantum Entanglement works the way it does? The two particles are split but no time is passing for them so their orientation can't be set, but when we interact with the particle we interfere with it's frame causing time to begin moving within that frame which is what causes the system to collapse into it's final state? If the two particles had started life not moving at the speed of light would they have already collapsed?

Thanks, really appreciate all of you :)

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Luenkel t1_is21ef3 wrote

No, this doesn't really make sense. We can and do entangle things which are definitly not moving at the speed of light all the time. So your premise doesn't work.

Also, there aren't any valid frames of reference moving at the speed of light. It doesn't make sense to talk about something "from the perspective of a photon". Just look at the lorentz factor: you're dividing by 0. The only thing you can really talk about is what happens as you approach the speed of light. You could say that time freezes in the limit perhaps.

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Wooden_Ad_3096 t1_is4xuvu wrote

Anything moving at the speed of light does not have a frame of reference.

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