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To: Alamo-Girl
...a paradox exists because the measurement itself instantaneously determines the partner as well.

That's not really a good description. The measurement on one of a pair of entangled particles tells you what a measurement on the other pair would give. It does not force that measurement to be made. The tricky part is that this is true for all measurements.

470 posted on 07/11/2003 6:16:32 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Thank you so much for your reply!

The measurement on one of a pair of entangled particles tells you what a measurement on the other pair would give. It does not force that measurement to be made.

I didn't mean to imply that measuring the one forces the other to be measured.

The point Penrose made was that if such measurements were made simultaneously, there would exist a paradox.

480 posted on 07/11/2003 7:45:24 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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