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Article #4502NONLOCALITY, HIDDEN VARIABLES, ACTION AT A DISTANCE
From: Jack Sarfatti
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 02:52
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 02:52
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H.D.Zeh in THE DIRECTION OF TIME (Springer-Verlag, 1992) p.90 writes: "In the formalism of quantum theory, the discussed nonlocality is kinematical (a property of the state) , and, therefore more appropriately called non-separability or entanglement. Until 1964 it was conceivable that it might some day be explained in terms of statistical correlations between hidden variable. Bell's (1964) analysis, based on gedanken experiments discussed by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (1935) demonstrated however that such a hypothetical structure behind quantum theory - even if not directly observable in principle - would itslf have to possess nonlocal properties in order to reproduce the predictions of quantum theory. Although these nonlocalities could then have a dynamical origin (be caused by an action at a distance) this action would have to act superluminally." Indeed, in my gedankenexperiment (i.e. transmitter interferometer with encoding phase plate in one path, half-wave plate in other, unitary beam recombiner with 90 degree phase shift between reflected and transmitted waves, and second coherent recombination of both inteferograms at a single final transmitter counter giving variable controllable polarization at far away receiver) this objectively real quantum action at a distance can be measured in an unequivocal unambiguous way. This superluminal action is relativistically invariant trivially since it is pre-metrical in John Wheeler's "pregeometry" having no dependence on the space-time interval separating the two detections of the the two photons in the same connected pair.
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!well!sarfatti From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) Subject: NONLOCALITY, HIDDEN VARIABLES, ACTION AT A DISTANCE Message-ID: <BvKtBA.D8E@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 02:52:21 GMT Lines: 26