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- From: atems@igor.physics.wayne.edu (Dale Atems)
- Subject: Re: hidden variables
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.031733.1730@cs.wayne.edu>
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- Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- References: <1993Jan10.141141.7849@oracorp.com> <483@mtnmath.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:17:33 GMT
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- In article <483@mtnmath.UUCP> paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
- >
- >Let me quote Eberhard (page 76):
- >
- > Let us consider two measuring apparatus located in two different places
- > A and B. There is a knob 'a' on apparatus A and a knob 'b' on
- > apparatus B. Since A and B are separated in space, it is natural to
- > think that what will happen in A is independent of the setting of
- > the knob 'b' and vice versa. The principles of relativity seem to
- > impose this point of view if the time at which the knobs are set and
- > the time of the measurements are so close that, in the time laps,
- > no light signal can travel from A to B or vice versa. Then, no signal
- > can inform a measurement apparatus of what the knob setting of the
- > other is. However, there are cases in which the predictions of quantum
- > theory make that independence assumption impossible. If quantum theory
- > is true, there are cases in which the results of the measurements in A
- > will depend on the setting of knob `b' and/or the results of the
- > measurements in B will depend on the setting of the knob a.
-
- Consider the Stern-Gerlach-type experiment described in my other
- post. Clearly that situation is not as simple as implied by Eberhard's
- argument. It is not a case of getting one probability distribution
- for spins measured at site 1 if the setting of magnet 2 is 40 degrees,
- and another if it is 90 degrees. You have to use measurements from
- *both* sites on members of a pair to observe the quantum correlations.
-
- Is there a case where the nonlocality is as obvious and trivial as
- this quote seems to imply?
-
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- Dale Atems
- Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- atems@igor.physics.wayne.edu
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