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To: HOTTIEBOY

Einstein never reconciled himself to quantum mechanics in the Copenhagen mold. The EPR paper was his attempt to show that either quantum mechanics is incomplete (which he thought to be the case) or that quantum mechanics (and so reality) is non-local (which he didn't think was the case). Bell's inequalities gave physicists hope of finding out experimentally which of the these two options was the case; Aspect's experiments showed that it was the latter, that is, that quantum mechanics (and so reality) has a non-local aspect (so to speak!). These results post-dated Einstein's death, of course, so he wasn't forced to confront the consequences.


32 posted on 12/28/2005 2:25:27 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored
"post-dated ... of course, so no consequence"

Your "of course" is tantalizing!

Are you implyinng that Einstein's life was quantumly entangled with Aspect's experiments? That had the experiment showed the opposite that Einstein would have lived?

Your theory, if it is such, is macabre. Yet it fits the general weirdness of QT.

37 posted on 12/28/2005 2:33:47 PM PST by bvw
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