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I'm posting the following on behalf of Michael Paddon in Australia,
who doesn't have post access to sci.space. Thanks for the
contribution (and hopefully the clarification), Michael!

- Steve Masticola.

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The Aspect experiment consisted of measuring the polarization of
photons that had previously interacted. He found that the polarization
of the quanta were linked no matter what the distance was between them.
The interesting aspect (:-)) was that this interaction manifested itself
in a instantaneous fashion (or as closely as could be measured). The
interaction was definitely faster than a signal could travel between
the particles at light speed.

The thing to note is that no information transfer is implied in these
results. If you could measure the polarization on one of the photons
(without affecting it -- Heisenberg's theory raises its ugly head here)
while the other photon was having its polarization manipulated,
all you would see is a different RANDOM pattern of polarization than
what would have happened otherwise!

If you could predict what the polarization would be on the photon,
then you could transfer information by this means. Unfortunately
the word RANDOM is the cornerstone of quantum interactions and
unless this element can be removed from the theory then faster than
light communication/travel is still an open question.

The Aspect experiment used light polarization as a convenient measure.
If I remember rightly, this result has been confirmed by a few other
researchers though I'd have to look up references to find the details.
Theoretically, this effect should manifest itself on other measurable
quanitities of various quanta. The important conclusions to be drawn
relate to the nature of reality particularily in the light of these
FTL interactions between quanta with no obvious means to interact.
Some of the opinions which have been aired on the net seem a bit light
on justification, however. It seems it takes more than the "Village
Voice" to sucessfully challenge Einstein's relativity :-).

If you are interested I can post to you some references and more details
which I don't have at hand just now.

Caveat Netperson:
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Please take my ramblings as those of a computer scientist with a casual
interest in physics.


					Michael Paddon
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