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kube@cogsci.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Paul Kube) writes:
>So, everybody, what do you want to give up: the impossibility of FTL
>information transfer, that the particle was spinning happily left all
>along, or the relevance of mathematics for physics?

Good question; here's another:  if we take the second option, what are the
philosophical implications, if any?  Might we take the Aspect et. al.
experiments to show merely that, at least in the case of "spin" etc., we
have picked the wrong concepts with which to describe the real world?

By the way, I think you should say "FTL causal influence" rather than "FTL
information transfer".  The collapse of a wave-packet in the Aspect 
experiments, even if interpreted as involving FTL causal influence, would 
not be useful for communication.  I'll let a more QM-fluent netter explain
why.  Please direct followups to whichever group(s) are appropriate, and
only those.
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Paul Torek						flink@mimsy.umd.edu