Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Doctor Stochastic
No. QM predicts no such thing, nor has it been seen.

Well, what in the heck are all these QM nonlocal experiments claiming? Please explain it to me.

31 posted on 03/12/2003 10:42:28 AM PST by mikegi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies ]


To: mikegi
Physicist could explain it much better. What happens is that correlations are different in QM than in the ordinary Boolean algebraic interpertations of probability theory.

For example, one might put either the Spade Ace or Heart Queen in a sealed mayonaise jar and place it on the steps of Funk and Wagnalls; the other card would be placed in sealed envelope and given to Price Waterhouse to place in a NASA launched space probe. If the mayonaise is later opened and has the Ace, one can be sure the probe has the Queen. One knows something about things far away, but there has been no information transmission.

Similar things happen with entangles states in QM. It's more complicated as the measurements are not as simply described as looking at a card.
38 posted on 03/12/2003 10:53:42 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies ]

To: mikegi
Well, what in the heck are all these QM nonlocal experiments claiming? Please explain it to me.

It's a correlation. Correlation is not causality.

QM predicts the correlation without postulating any sort of signal from one measurement event to another. That shows you that, mathematically, there need not be any causal influence from one to the other.

But that being said, the long-range correlations are an observed experimental fact. It's up to you whether you want to reject QM on the grounds that it predicts long-range correlations. But please be aware that any correct theory must also (quantitatively) make the same prediction, because the correlations really are there in nature.

41 posted on 03/12/2003 10:56:28 AM PST by Physicist
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson