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- From: atems@igor.physics.wayne.edu (Dale Atems)
- Subject: Re: Aspect's experiment
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.221801.4003@cs.wayne.edu>
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- Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- References: <C00pCC.6FG@well.sf.ca.us> <458@mtnmath.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:18:01 GMT
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- As a naive reader unfamiliar with the details of Aspect's experiment I
- cannot comment on the conclusions being reached here. However, may I
- interject a (possibly relevant) question?
-
- In article <458@mtnmath.UUCP> paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
- >In article <C00pCC.6FG@well.sf.ca.us>, sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
- >>[...] Furthermore, Aspect's acoustically driven switching
- >> time for the polarizer orientations was short compared to flight time by a
- >> factor of order 10 as I recall - so the interval between detections of any
- >> two photons in the same pair is definitely spacelike. And I don't think
- >> it's clear to anyone but you if your "critical delay" is the same as
- >> Aspect's switching time.
-
- Okay. The arrival of a photon at a detector is an event.
-
- >The critical interval is not that between detecting two photons in the
- >same pair. The critical intervals are those between when the polarizers
- >change and this has an observable effect. These are not Aspect's switching
- >time. They are the intervals that must be measured to prove Bell's
- >inequality is violated.
-
- Well, the change in the angle of a polarizer is also an event. But
- what is "this has an observable effect"? If you had said
-
- >The critical intervals are those between the change of angle of a
- >polarizer and the arrival of the more distant photon at the detector
-
- then I could understand this. Since you didn't say it, I assume you
- meant something more, but it is not clear to me what that something is.
-
- And later:
-
- >You change both polarizers simultaneously and observe the delay between
- >when this change happens and it affects the probability of joint detections.
-
- Much the same unclear wording. You speak of the time between a pair of
- events and an "it affects the..." Am I missing a subtlety here
- because of my unfamiliarity with the experiment, or is something being
- *said* unclearly because it is not being *thought* clearly?
-
- This is meant as a question, not as a challenge. Please treat it
- accordingly.
-
- ------
- Dale Atems
- Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- atems@igor.physics.wayne.edu
-