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- From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
- Subject: Re: Ramsay's questions to Sarfatti
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.170752.5855@bnr.ca>
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- References: <1e73gaINN7od@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1992Nov16.205308.27242@bnr.ca> <1ebug0INNh8e@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:07:52 GMT
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- In article <1ebug0INNh8e@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay) writes:
- >I wrote:
- >>If you squint your
- >>eyes, the two states arriving in the detector look a lot alike. But
- >>they are distinguishable by their momenta-- so they couldn't possibly
- >>be parallel or differ only by a phase.
- >
- >In article <1992Nov16.205308.27242@bnr.ca> bucknerb@bnr.ca
- >(Brent Buckner) writes:
- >>Why wouldn't this argument be valid contra the classic double-slit
- >>experiment exhibiting singlet interference?
- >
- [Snappy answer to stupid question deleted - thanks!]
- >
- >I hope that this answers the question. I don't know, because I can't
- >see what the would-be argument is supposed to be. Why does what I have
- >said not serve as an argument against the result of the double-slit
- >experiment? To me the idea appears simply as a non-sequitor, a gap in
- >logic. Hence I've taken a guess as to what is missing.
- >
-
- A bit of cognitive interference with respect to state,
- measurement, and distinguishability.
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