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Argh!  I strongly object to Jack Sarfatti bringing the transactional
interpretation of quantum mechanics (see Reviews of Modern Physics, July-1986)
into his latest non-local FTL communication scheme.  The transactional
interpretation is just that, and INTERPRETATION of the formalism of
the standard mathematics of quantum mechanics, and as such it does not provide
any mechanism for non-local communication.  The reason is fairly simple:
in the mathematics of quantum mechanics, spatially separated measurements
performed on the same quantum system are represented by operators that
always commute, so nothing that one operator does can change, in the sense of
signalling, the response of the other measurement.  The non-local quantum
correlations are there, but they are so subtle that no non-local observer
to observer communication is possible, UNLESS YOU GO BEYOND THE STANDARD
FORMULATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS.

Therefore, I would not worry much about Sarfatti's latest broadside.  If you
are interested in non-standard quantum mechanics, Steve Weinberg's recent
investigations of the possibility of small non-linear effects in quantum
systems is a much better place to look.  There is also some discussion of
"extensions" of the formalism in various directions in my paper on the
transactional interpretation, as cited above.

John G. Cramer
University of Washington
cramer@phast.phys.washington.edu