Is this a joke by which you mean to illustrate how the US patent system is broken, or is it an attempt to put your foot in the door, so to speak, if something like this somehow turns out to be workable in a few decades?
If it's a joke, a few paragraphs explaining your take on the US patent system, in light of this patent, would be in order.
Either way, it is kind of despicable that the US patent system allows this to go through. :(
American Journal of Physics, 64 (1996) 31-34, 1202
an online reprint: http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/TeachQM/misconnzz.pdf (check out #7)
I just found this paper the other day when I was looking for questions to use in a midterm for the class I'm TA'ing. I believe that superluminal information transfer conflicts with relativity (as I'm sure you suspect based on your Einstein reference), but I don't have a more explicit reference at the moment than the one above.
Is this a joke by which you mean to illustrate how the US patent system is broken, or is it an attempt to put your foot in the door, so to speak, if something like this somehow turns out to be workable in a few decades?
ReplyDeleteIf it's a joke, a few paragraphs explaining your take on the US patent system, in light of this patent, would be in order.
Either way, it is kind of despicable that the US patent system allows this to go through. :(
Is this a joke ... or is it an attempt to put your foot in the door
ReplyDeleteThat all depends on whether the thing actually works :-)
American Journal of Physics, 64 (1996) 31-34, 1202
ReplyDeletean online reprint:
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/TeachQM/misconnzz.pdf
(check out #7)
I just found this paper the other day when I was looking for questions to use in a midterm for the class I'm TA'ing. I believe that superluminal information transfer conflicts with relativity (as I'm sure you suspect based on your Einstein reference), but I don't have a more explicit reference at the moment than the one above.
i seriously doubt this works....
ReplyDeletei put my bet on Einstein
Ron! Check this out:
ReplyDeletehttp://m.slashdot.org/story/310655
You might want to inform them of your patent!
I'll get my lawyers on it first thing in the morning.
ReplyDelete(Seriously, dude, who *are* you that you even remembered this? I posted this ten years ago!)