~~~Are you a Pantheist??? What is a Pantheist??? Pantheism is the belief... that, "God and the Universe are one in the same." There are good reasons to believe...
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green228
Apr 10, 2005 5:13 pm
The Statistical Interpretation of Entangled States http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404011 Any obvious fallacies, or is this the long-sought solution? I...
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green228
Apr 10, 2005 5:21 pm
... is ... statistical ... seems ... created ... are ... I forget add that if BI is violated and the spins of entangled pairs is not set locally at the source...
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vbdat543rprgz
Apr 19, 2005 8:22 pm
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booom0r1
Apr 22, 2005 4:57 am
... Hi, just joined the group and have been reading past posts. It would be fantastic if you dig up the reference for that lower bound to the "speed of...
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David Strayhorn
straycat_md
Apr 22, 2005 5:30 am
Hey Kent, here's one in my files: Optical tests of quantum nonlocality: from EPR-Bell tests towards experiments with moving observers. Gisin, Scarani, Tittel,...
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booom0r1
Apr 22, 2005 5:34 am
... the ... Hi, When you use the term "algorithm" to describe a wavefunction, are you implying that wavefunctions exists only mathematically (or are book- ...
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booom0r1
Apr 22, 2005 5:42 am
Hi, From what I've read from the quotes you pasted of Leggett's article, it seems to be me you have a misunderstanding in Leggett's use of the term "external...
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booom0r1
Apr 22, 2005 10:14 am
My interpretation is that the examples you mention of, measuring intruments and cats, are mere realities. "External realities" are descriptions beyond...
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scerir
Apr 22, 2005 6:08 pm
From: "booom0r1"; ... The speed of quantum information and the preferred frame: analysis of experimental data http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0007008 Authors:...
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Douglas Early
tbhaber
Apr 22, 2005 6:30 pm
Kent, ... It's like the distinction between the word "dog" and a dog. The term "wavefunction" denotes a mathematical function, without necessarily implying...
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booom0r1
Apr 23, 2005 1:45 am
... For an anti-realist, does the term "complete"; have meaning? If so, what would be considered a complete theory? My guess is, any theory that achieves the...
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Douglas Early
tbhaber
Apr 24, 2005 7:19 pm
Kent, ... Yes, I think that's right. Which means that an antirealist wouldn't agree with the concept of completeness used in the EPR paper because the...
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tlt787
Apr 25, 2005 3:23 pm
... The conditional probabilities of the qm formulations for Bell tests assume a common cause. This 'local' origin of the two wave trains being analyzed by...
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Travis Norsen
tnorsen
Apr 25, 2005 5:17 pm
... They do? I don't think so. What's the common cause? The wave function? I guess you could talk that way, but then that cause isn't sufficient to...
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tlt787
Apr 26, 2005 8:48 am
... The common cause is the emission event that the two-photon wave function is associated with. The physical properties of photons associated with Light...
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Travis Norsen
tnorsen
Apr 26, 2005 1:34 pm
... That's obviously insufficient. So two particles were emitted. How can that explain the *particular* outcomes that are seen, or some lawlike pattern in...
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thomastrotter2005@...
tlt787
Apr 27, 2005 12:41 am
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:33:53 -0400 (EDT) Travis Norsen ... Wrt the optical Bell (OB) tests I'm familiar with the relation is that, with polarizers aligned, if...
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tlt787
Apr 27, 2005 5:44 am
... Here's a way to look at it: The probability of a PMT registering a detection is directly proportional to the intensity of the light incident on it. If we...
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booom0r1
Apr 27, 2005 11:22 am
Hi, Just today I had to give a brief talk to my class for my quantum mechanics class, and I briefly mentioned the difference between a realist like Einstein...
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Travis Norsen
tnorsen
Apr 27, 2005 11:47 am
... Then I don't think I understand what you're *claiming*. I thought you thought you could explain the correlations in a local way. QM itself doesn't do so...
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Travis Norsen
tnorsen
Apr 27, 2005 12:01 pm
... OK, so whatever that shared physical state is, call that "L". Then the probability for joint detection is P(A,B|a,b,L). Bell Locality requires this to...
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thomastrotter2005@...
tlt787
Apr 27, 2005 3:22 pm
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:46:58 -0400 (EDT) Travis Norsen ... Until more is known about the behavior of the light incident on the polarizers, then the...
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Travis Norsen
tnorsen
Apr 27, 2005 3:27 pm
... No such starting point is needed. The starting point -- and then a whole lot more!!! -- has already been provided by Bell. The hypothesis that the...
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thomastrotter2005@...
tlt787
Apr 27, 2005 4:40 pm
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:00:39 -0400 (EDT) Travis Norsen ... We already know that that formulation is incompatible with the one that works experimentally. The...
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Travis Norsen
tnorsen
Apr 27, 2005 10:35 pm
... It *turns out* to be incompatible with experiment, yes. That's Bell's Theorem. But what the factorization requirement *means* is simply that the outcomes...
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tlt787
Apr 27, 2005 11:41 pm
... These labels can get a bit slippery. Bohr wasn't an anti-realist, per se, afaik. He was anti-metaphysics. With the discovery (by inference) of phenomena...
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Yum Chinn
Chinnlab
Apr 28, 2005 12:36 am
Please do-- for the benefit of those who may need the exercise. Thank you....
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tlt787
Apr 28, 2005 2:57 am
... I can think of separated phenomena that are correlated by nonfactorable functions and are clearly not superluminally influencing each other. I'm sure you...
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Douglas Early
tbhaber
Apr 28, 2005 5:52 am
Kent, ... The usual claim of antirealism is that the model's predictions don't correspond to any reality that exists independently of the observations (or of...
