EPR ENTANGLEMENT & DARK MATTER

IT IS COMPLICATED

Quantum particle entanglement as investigated and debated by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR) a century ago and by hundreds of physicists ever since, is now generally accepted by science. But it remains a deep mystery. When a photon or other primary particle is split and the twin particles zoom off to different parts of the universe, they keep in touch. How they do this is unknown. Einstein didn't like Entanglement because it requires the two particles to communicate instantaneously - faster than the speed of light. Einstein proved that "nothing can act faster than the speed of light". 

Was he wrong? 

Hundreds of highly sophisticated and accurate practical experiments have been conducted which demonstrate that entanglement is real. Change one of the twins and the other, no matter how distant, instantly changes. They are in touch. Computer companies are investing millions in "quantum entanglement machines": it is real. 

Entanglement is often cited in the Double-Slit experiment where light (photons) is shone through very tiny slits, onto a screen; they manifest wave-like behaviour; even a single photon as it reaches the screen breaks down into wave patterns instead of remaining as a quantum spot of light. There is no explanation. 

After one-hundred years or so of speculations, my speculation is that ALL objects in the universe, from galaxies to sub-atomic particles signal their existence by radiating or reflecting electromagnetic signals (light, radio), which we or our instruments detect. This is how we know the objects exist; their waves communicate universally and we read them. This radiation, these waves expand from the object in spheres; even a laser beam eventually will spread into a sphere. A laser beam shining up into deep space is visible as it encounters and reflects from particles in our atmosphere and then in space. It is visible from whatever location we look. It is radiating its existence - otherwise we could not detect it. 

I am now speculating that how we see objects is a function of the expanding sphere it radiates. We encounter the energetic data-rich waves as they expand to infinity and we recognise the central object. We are actually seeing or intercepting an image on the surface of the expanding sphere; somewhat like an event horizon. 

Take this fact further: as the (real) object radiates or reflects, waves propagate continuously from the centre. It is fact that we and the universe only detect the object when the waves encounter and are intercepted by another energetic data-rich sphere - or our instruments. The merging of the different waves - propagating say from a planet and a star or a person, at the surface of the two spheres, create a particle /photon etc. which we see. We cannot ever see the "real" object; we can only see the signals it broadcasts as waves - and when we do so, we inevitably "collapse the wave-forms" as our waves interfere with those of the observed object.  

Between the centre of the object and the peripheral surface, the waves exist but are invisible to us. We cannot /do not see the energy propagating in the space between the object and the expanding sphere; unless and until it meets another sphere where a particle (spinning pure energy?) manifests. The inner-space is however not empty (there is no "empty" space in the universe), it is full of the waves of data about the central object. If we look into that inner-space, we can only do so by intercepting the propagating waves and thus introducing spheres of energy from our instruments or ourselves; we too are objects that signal our existence by radiating information (in-form-ation). 

So, we detect entanglement as we measure (intercept) points on the outer sphere. It is the sphere, which is a field (I prefer ocean) that we interfere with. Our interference affects the whole sphere (shell) and thus changes the particles that exist on the surface of the sphere. All such particles on every point of the shell are affected simultaneously. Entanglement is not limited to twin particles - there can be any number of identical particles that alter as we interfere with the expanding shell. 

The universe is filled with such energetic shells. There is no place where they do not exist. We can see the data broadcast by the inner-objects onto their shells from any location in the universe. 

A further thought is that the invisible waves of energy propagating between the centres of all object and their shells (which inform us the objects exist) is many times more mass than the particles that become visible at interception points - though such points are as near infinite as maths will allow. The space between centre and shell-surface is dark-matter; we (any other radiating object) cannot detect the dark-matter without our shells interfering and thus creating particles. I speculate that particles of matter are whorls or whirlpools of pure-energy where shells meet (i.e. everywhere). 

I've addressed dark-energy and its alleged expansion power elsewhere. 

http://www.noelhodson.com/index_files/Life-Universe-Everything-8Mar2011.pdf

THUS ENDETH THE LESSON - Sunday 16th August 2020

  

FISSION & FUSION ENERGY

The quest to generate limitless clean energy from atomic-fusion, such as the Sun produces, has spanned at least fifty-years. The Sun, our star, warms the solar system by fusing two hydrogen atoms to make one helium atom; in the process surplus energy is shed, which radiates and brings life-energy to Earth, and maybe life to our neighbouring planets. To date, despite huge budgets and hundreds of brave attempts, science has not managed to get more energy out of fusion experiments than it puts in. 

Basically, the aim is to create and control a plasma - hot, pure energy - by firing lasers at elements, or by other processes, that force atoms together. This "forcing" uses a lot of energy. The sun-like plasma is very, very hot. It can only be contained in a magnetic-bottle. Making such "bottles" to contain the heat of the sun requires a lot of energy and precise control. So far, plasma has been manufactured that lasts just parts of a second, requiring more energy input than the output. When, or if, fusion is achieved in our laboratories, harvesting useful heat from the plasma, to drive turbines, is another major technical hurdle. 

Why bother - when we have fully mastered atomic-fission? Atomic energy reactors have been contributing electric power since the Atom-Bomb and H-Bomb were invented. The major difference between fission and fusion is that fission explodes the energy locked into atoms and sub-atomic particles - while fusion builds new atoms and sub-atomic particles. The human race has not yet managed to fuse the bases of mass or matter together, moulding elements or parts of elements from "pure-energy". Pure energy pervades the whole universe as fields - that I prefer to envisage as oceans. Fields are flat and two dimensional - Oceans are deep and three dimensional. 

Either way - we don't know how to compress or precipitate objects /mass/ material /stuff from plasma. Creation of fundamental particles is still a mystery. 

We bother? - Because fission is a dirty, dangerous, poisonous process that releases lethal or wounding and disruptive radiation of wavicles/particles with half-lives of hundreds, sometimes thousands of years. It is said that fusion produces no such harmful debris. 

To assist the human-race to harness atomic fusion, I suggest we rethink gravity. The most plentiful element in the universe is hydrogen. Wherever we look in the cosmos, we see immense wispy clouds of hydrogen. They drift together, they make oceans, the oceans get deeper and deeper. They coalesce. In the depths of the cloud-oceans stars form. The stars form galaxies, of billions of stars. Each star is a sun, radiating immense energies (light) from atomic-fusion. This act of galaxy creation is caused mainly by gravity. 

With the risk of being repetitive, I speculate that the outer-force of gravity is the universal ocean of radiation that is 43.7 b.l.y. deep (to the horizon of the observable universe). It is now known that light and electromagnetic energy are not mass-less. Light exerts pressure. I guess this almost infinite ocean presses almost eternally on every-thing, including the hydrogen clouds - which coalesce.  

Professor Casimir demonstrated that between masses that become matter, some wavelengths of  radiation, the universal radiation, cannot manifest. The radiation between masses is less than the outside radiation. Between masses is a shadow of exclusion. As mass piles upon mass, the more shells of matter are formed, the deeper the Casimir Shadow (I think) becomes. This inner partial vacuum is the pull of gravity. At its most extreme the inner vacuum becomes a black-hole. Black Holes do recycle their trapped energy. 

It takes these two forces - Outer and Inner - to power fusion in stars. Our fusion-energy researchers might collaborate with physicists who want to make black-holes (vacuums), compressed by 43.7 b.l.y of radiation (pressure) - to create useful fusion-plasma. Then all they have to do is find a way to contain and direct it. 

It is just a thought. But it is a new thought. Fusionable material perhaps? 

Isaac Newton's 21st Century Entanglement

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Isaac Newton's 21st Century Entanglement

Once Upon A Time, I read weekly issues of New Scientist, monthly editions of Scientific American, dozens of books by particle and astro-physicists, and attended three-years of physics courses “For Continuing Education” at the University of Oxford.  I bought the first ever edition of New Scientist – and still get them weekly, and read them cover to cover; that’s sixty-one years of following the course of popular physics and science; hugely assisted by Jimmy Wale’s Wikipedia.

You might well ask, Why? What have I learned in six decades, about Life, The Universe and Everything. Mostly I’ve learned that we humans have gained knowledge of, say, one-percent, about how things work. There are many more, 99 to 1, questions than we have answers. So, “There’s a way to go before we rest.”

One of the most baffling areas is Quantum-Physics. “Quantum” refers to the fact (we believe it is fact) that every sort of basic stuff, basic energy, the stuff of the universe, exists in neatly defined packages. The particles have a fixed “quantity” of stuff; of energy. As far back as classical Greece, humankind has pestered and fussed and explored to conceive and consider just what is the smallest thing, or things, that make our universe. They also thought in quantum terms – and imagined the smallest unit was the Atom. Two or three thousand years later, Rutherford and others bombarded atoms and studied the debris and found sub-atomic-particles. We think that these minuscule motes, the bricks that build atoms, also exist in neat little packages. It maybe that the very smallest thing is the Quark (rhymes with cork). “Quantum theory” implies that such particles are discontinuous, with abrupt steps, one to the next. They have separate identities and are not “fields” – or indeed are not oceans. The fields and oceans of “pure-energy” are continuous and do not have steps. They are plasma; very hot, melted, merging, swirling clouds of non-matter, with electro-magnetic fields. When these clouds condense, they produce sub-atomic-particles; photons (light) electrons (orbiting in atoms) etc. etc. etc.

I have been mulling over these matters for sixty-one years. You will be pleased to know that I have, uniquely, solved the mystery of Gravity, that sticks stuff together. Read about it in this blog. And I have tracked other mysterious events and processes – presented in these colourful slides. 99.99% of scientists and philosophers will say, with great weight and authority, that I am at best misled, deluded, and, at worst, totally stark raving potty. I leave you judge.

However, one of the threads I have followed is “Entanglement” – and hence this book. Entanglement is respectable science, demonstrated experimentally many times. It says that when a sub-atomic particle splits (usual example being a photon, light, the most plentiful “quantum” in the universe) the two halves reform as nice rounded complete photons – and, at the speed of light, they whizz off in different directions. And, mysteriously, they stay in communication; always and forever. Because they are separating at the speed-of-light, and because Einstein proved that “Nothing Travels Faster Than Light”, these entangled photons cannot communicate with each other. But they do.

Einstein famously dubbed this phenomena “Spooky action at a distance.” He denied that it could be; then came around to believing. Entanglement works! OK?

One of my reality-checks when getting excited by scientific discoveries, is to remind myself that I am also made of the stuff of the universe. For convenience, I say that all objects are made of light, or photons. Basic quantum units. Yours and my brains are made of photons; organised in ways we cannot conceive – to make, forgive the pun, an intelligent organism. If we can “Know Thyself” in sufficient depth and consciousness, we can explore this stuff of the universe of which we are made. We are each a walking reference library of Life, The Universe and Everything. We just need to learn how to read it / read ourselves. And all our bits and pieces are, as my publishers put it “quantumly-entangled”.  

So, this is the underlying logic of how Isaac Newton and his young friend, Archie Wilkins, meet, discourse and flow through space-time. Throw in a little Richard Feynman time-independent occurrences (also respectable QED science) – and we have a pretty decent Time-Machine. It is of course impossible and sadly ungovernable  and non-directional – but the elements are there. Rome wasn’t built in a day.   

Noel HODSON - Author

ENTANGLED PARTICLES - Spooky Action at a Distance - explained.

Not yet in print. Coming soon.

My new, amusing novel ‘Isaac Newton’s 21^st Century Entanglement’ is in the process of being published. It is humorous but is based on the serious physics of particle entanglement – Einstein’s “Spooky Action at a Distance”. 

This consensus science avers that two subatomic particles, usually created from a single particle or energetic event, might fly apart but remain in communication and affect each other over distances. In experiments, Entangled Particles are often two photons, which separate at the speed of light, and even if they go to opposite sides of the universe, they are always in contact – and affect, mirror, each other’s state or behaviour. 

The novel takes this proven process and employs it as a mechanism for time-travel. After all, it is a Sci-Fi novel.

Over the past year, the physics of entanglement has particularly occupied my attention. Theoretically, if two photons fly to the opposite horizons of the universe, both at the “speed” of light, they separate at twice the speed of light. We all know that such speed is banned and deemed impossible by Einstein’s Relativity and Feynman’s QED. “Nothing travels faster than light”. However, experiments in PE, Particle Entanglement, demonstrate that PE is real; they do affect each other, seemingly instantaneously, via a mysterious communication; Einstein’s spooky action at a distance i.e. faster than light.

I’ve proposed a mechanism that causes gravity – an equally mysterious force that operates between objects, it seems, over any distance. Science does not propose that gravity operates faster than light. But are there common factors? I take the question back to the primary particles – photons. My gravity idea requires that photons have slight mass.

A photon is a quantum particle of light which “travels” or more correctly which propagates, at 300,000 km per second in particles and waves (wavicles). I think that photons are never alone. When energy creates or releases a photon, at the location of creation, at the energetic event, is a globe – not a gun that fires a photon bullet. On  a larger scale – e.g. The North Star, the radiation that tells us the star exists is a globe. Fly around the star, North, South, East or West, and it will be seen as a globe. The radiation is emanating in globular rings - spheres, moving towards our eyes or instruments. A single, none globular photon does not exist. What is created is a wave. Even at the power of just one-photon, it is a wavicle, moving out into space as a globe. Wherever our eyes intercept that sphere, or vice-verse, we “see” a particle, a photon – a quantum packet of energy. But it is not a separate minuscule ball of light. It is an energetic wave broadcasting the presence of the object, be it a star or a sub-atomic event.

Let’s take a single small light-bulb. The filament is heated by pumping through electricity. It glows and radiates a sphere. I’m thinking that where the outer-sphere touches any object there is an electron exchange/ reaction, be it with a dust particle or a substantial object. Where the sphere touches /intercepts – Here-Be-Photons. The sphere is the wave – propagating at light-speed – it does not consist of photons, it is “pure” energy; but at any point that collides with any foreign body – the collision focuses or draws the  energy to that point. So, the sphere appears to be made of photons. But it is not – until it intercepts.

To account for the quantum (a precise quantity of stuff - usually very tiny), imagine the filament emanates continuous light, in waves, in peaks and troughs, in spheres. These spheres are propagating a quantum distance apart – maybe the Planck length and time. 

Touch or examine the spheres – perhaps with another sphere of radiation or with your finger – and at the intersection we find a photon. Rather like those toy-globes of static electricity, full of lightning, that responds to your fingers moving over the glass. So, any interception on any point on the sphere is a photon. 

We, the experimenters, want to see twin photons moving apart? We generate an event with the power of a single-photon in a black, blank space. A sphere forms at the event. It expands. It is an expanding sphere. We test the right-hand-side and find a photon. We test the left hand-side and find another photon. We see two photons, very close together, generated from one-event. We track both photons. Unknown to us, they are focuses of the pure-energy of the expanding sphere. The sphere is the permanent energy, the photons are ephemeral. They manifest only when we look. They manifest every-time we look /intercept /examine them.

We cannot see the sphere – we only see the photons. They each move apart (as the sphere expands) at the speed of light. There is nothing in science we know of that can communicate on the straight line between the twins. They appear to be separate but are actually products of the same expanding sphere. They are moving apart at the speed of light – or (heresy) even faster. We spin or charge or otherwise affect one of the twins; it isn’t real and permanent, the sphere is the reality. We are affecting the entire sphere. 

The 2^nd twin we have identified is altered by our impact on the 1^st photon. It probably shows an equal and opposite reaction to maintain the integrity and energy-balance of the sphere. We are playing with Entangled Particles. The same causes and outcomes would be true for other entangled sub-atomic particles. Where we identify twins – there are in fact multitudes. The particles are legion. They are everywhere we care to look. ALL the particles on a sphere are entangled. Tweak one and the sphere changes – and changes all the particles we can find on that sphere.  

It gets a little complicated when we consider the endless procession of quantum separated spheres - generated from a light-bulb by the energy input, usually electricity. It is easier to have just one sphere - but there are in fact trillions, broadcasting from every object of every size. That is how we detect them, how we detect all "things" - by their reflected or internally generated energy.

Now – Choose a spot of intergalactic “empty” space. Many light years outside the Milky Way Galaxy – a lonely black empty sphere – of, say, the size of Earth’s Moon. But empty. Nothing there. However – set up detecting instruments and point them at the centre of the galaxy. The instruments will detect trillions of energetic events – from particle collisions to collisions of solar-systems. They all broadcast their activities as energetic spheres. All the sphere’s intersect. At the myriad intersections we see particles. Our instruments – say, the human eye, can see the whole of the universe – communicated via the expanding spheres – separated by quantum distances and times. What we cannot “see” yet, is the medium that supports or builds the sphere’s. We are blind to the spheres, which are the structure of the universe. We do not know what they are made of (Dark Matter? – Dark Energy?). But they are there. There is no such thing as Empty-Space. We are, I’m afraid, back to the Victorian’s Aether. I call it the Aether-Matrix.

This idea ties into my theory of what gravity is – as distinct from what gravity does.

http://noelhodson.blogspot.com/2019/10/gravity-cosmic-web.html

Friday, 4 October 2019

GRAVITY & THE COSMIC WEB

MORE: Follow the label "Gravity" below. It's quite a long read. But worth the trouble.

FROM CHAOS THEORY TO ORGANISMS - TIME TRAVEL

I have just finished the draft of a new time-travel novel, Isaac Newton & The Alchemist's Lad - The Perils of Entanglement, featuring Isaac Newton from 1666 and present-day ten year old Fred - who tells Isaac "My teacher says you were quite bright - in your day." The book is a very readable adventure for young-adults and the young at heart, which has the added bonus of introducing and explaining particle and astrophysics. It misstates two new-physicists' howlers - that you can no doubt spot and untangle as you read.

The means by which they travel through time from 1666 to 2018, then back again, is based on the well attested and fully accepted sub-atomic or quantum theory of entanglement. Einstein at first refused to accept the theory of entanglement, dubbing it "spooky action at a distance." Not only did the spooky action spook Albert but the theory also allows - or requires - that particles communicate over these spooky, sometimes long, distances, at faster than the speed-of-light. This, as you all know is impossible because Einstein proved that "Nothing travels faster than Light!"

His theories have been subjected to hundreds of experimental tests over the past one-hundred years, and have been conclusively proved to be correct.

Basically, when two photons are created from the splitting of another particle - often from electrons - the two new photons waste no time and zip off at the speed of light in opposite directions. Though they might journey to the horizon of the Observable Universe, forty-three-point-seven billion light years distant (so you can double that distance if they go to opposite horizons) - the photons, entangled photons, are in communication at all times. They are like identical-twins who are separated at birth and taken to different continents without any communication - yet still look the same, wear the same clothes, have the same hairstyles and both like pistachio ice-cream. They are mysteriously in touch. They are communicating - somehow. They are spookily "entangled".

What irked Einstein even more about these impertinent photons, was and is the fact that they were separating at the speed of light, three-hundred-thousand kilometres per second; and so it was and is impossible for them to receive messages from each other - because "Nothing travels faster than Light". No signal could ever catch up with the flighty photons. But, science proves and has proved time after time, that they are in touch. They chat to each to other all the time.

All objects in the universe, all things, are made of compressed photons. You, me, your parents and pebbles on the beach are all made from photons. An atomic explosion of, say just 100 lbs of uranium releases and  reveals all the photons it contains in an instant, immense explosion as the light and heat locked in there for eons is freed and made visible. The photons are entangled - then blow apart - but still communicating. So - I used this as a time travel mechanism. I teased out of Isaac Newton, with a radio beam, a few of his entangled photons. Because each was in communication, all the photons, trillions of photons, followed each other along the beam "Beam me up Scottie!"

By esoteric methods and science that I must keep secret - at the end of their journey from 1666 to 2018, the photons reassembled themselves in the right order and relationships - and re-made Isaac Newton - and he met Fred. The entangled photons knew their precise positions and functions to re-create Isaac. Time travel is made possible - without magic. 

It occurred to me this morning that this power to disassemble and reassemble must also be true for the several trillion cells in the human body. They know their functions; they cooperate; they communicate; new cells know their roles in the business of life; trillions of these immensely complex little factories know what to do - to make an organism that functions - that has a brain - has will and that can sometimes think. BUT HOW? 

Whether it is photons making a kilogram of uranium, or cells making a human; how do they know when there are enough? How do they know when to stop adding units to the object? How do they know how to confer a particular identity to the object - or to us? 

Like Goldilocks and the Three Bears - these minuscule packets of energy know when the object is too hot, too cold or, miraculously, is just right. A new human baby grows from one, a single cell, to two-trillion cells in nine months. How does it know when it has assembled enough units to trigger birth? This sweet little baby then grows into a 17 stone football player - of about 56 trillion cells; all communicating and swapping information - in a very spooky manner. But how does this hairy heavyweight know where its boundaries are. Why not keep adding cells - randomly? Where does the template - the governing pattern reside? We think we know it is governed by DNA, by inherited DNA, but where is the template, the controller, to assemble trillions of tiny particles into functioning DNA? My guess is that it is in the Aether, in Space-Time, in patterns of electromagnetic light and radio waves. 

Is it therefore possible, as I've imagined in my book, to dis-integrate, transport, and re-integrate the constituent parts of an object - of a human being - in full working order? Could we, one day in the future, use photon-entanglement at microscopic levels thousands of times smaller than a human cell, to separate the photons, persuade them to ride on a carefully calibrated radio beam - travelling or propagating even faster than light (in a timeless fashion) - and have them utilize their entanglement to bring all their chums with them, and re-form elsewhere in exactly the same relationships and functions as when they started the journey? Carefully managed - we could be immortal, as envisaged in SF movies where humans upload into computers - but without the need for computers. 

"Beam me up Scotty" indeed.

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The extraordinary, precise communications between cells, molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles and templates which enable organisms to transcend the sum of their parts, to function - and aspire to act intelligently, are the mysterious mechanisms or force of life.

I want to explore the concept of a fully functioning human - whose parts are self-evidently communicating correctly, as nature intends - and who is communicating with his/her community; the community without which we would certainly die or never come to life - going into outer or "deep" space, progressively losing the communications with family, tribe, race and planet. Will this super-lonely body also lose the inner communications between all the particles - and thus disintegrate? Do our inner communications depend on our environment, the teeming electromagnetic ocean in which we swim, with, currently, seven billion other humans?

The "Isaac" time-travel novel above, imagines that if entangled particles communicate, then teasing a single particle to hitch-hike on a radio-beam will trigger the adjacent particle to follow, then the next, and the next - ad-infinitum. The proven, demonstrable spooky quantum-entanglement might, could, or should inform each particle of it's unique place - in its ordained and accepted order - in the original body (mass). On arrival, at the target of the radio-beam, the second (entangled) particle will attach  to the first, then the third will find its position, then the fourth, then the cascade of trillions of communicating particles will take their places - and rebuild the original body, in the new location.

Our bodies do not have a definitive "edge". The trillions of mutually dependent cells, each happily playing its appointed role, if examined under an electron-microscope, viewing the alleged boundary, skin or integument, are seen to be loosely attached. A few drift away from our skin at all times. If rubbed, millions fall away and scatter. Most house dust consists of discarded human skin cells. The skin is bombarded with incoming particles, rays, beams, light. Where our skin meets the universe there is a zone of constant interchange. There is no thin red line - or brown, black, yellow line of demarcation which says "This person stops here." But somehow, we know where we end. We know our permitted shape and size - and in turn all the cells know. And if they know their function and place, then so do the molecules, made of atoms, made of sub-atomic-particles, made of light - within our supposedly private person. They all know their place. All parts are communicating; communicating vital data and energy. If they get it wrong we die. We disintegrate, we fall apart.

For seventy or a hundred years or so - they get it right. From our entangled photons to our factory-like cells, all the bits get it right. And we live. We are the product of all these communications. "We" ourselves - our unique identities - exist as an intelligent organism (with some notable exceptions) only because "our" sub-atomic-particles, which in isolation we might regard as dead or inert packets of energy, constantly, tirelessly, persistently communicate - with meaning and purpose. We integrate these countless trillions of communications and make sense of them. We are brilliant examples of the Life-Force.

However, we are not alone. Counting only our seven-billion or so living primate relatives and leaving aside the billions of other living creatures - and assuming that only the Earth produces life, we are forever receiving and broadcasting electromagnetic signals to each other. Such signals alter our DNA. We are changed by everyone and by everything we encounter. These communications are possibly the energy and organisation that create the Life-Force.

If one of us drifts into deep-space, far from such life-giving communications and energies - too far to receive and send - momentarily happy to get away from it all, because as Sartre told us "Hell is other People" - would we survive?

In the vast ocean of life, we are bombarded with waves of coherent data and information. We are literally "informed" by the signals we receive (and send). Our skin passes on the electromagnetic data to our (entangled) inner cells and down to our entangled-photons. Without this maelstrom of information, of vital communication from the entire universe - would we cease to exist?

When we do eventually succumb, as our number is called, as our three-score-years-and-ten, with added time for good behaviour, runs out - and our personal identity communications cease - is the pattern of all our communications on record, still broadcasting out to the 43.7 b.l.y. horizon of the observable universe? Is our essential self still entangled? Do our very personal entangled photons bounce back from the edge of time and reassemble, reintegrate and form another, quite similar creation?