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- From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Aspect's experiment
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:14:03
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <FRANL.92Dec30171403@draco.centerline.com>
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- In-reply-to: paul@mtnmath.UUCP's message of 30 Dec 92 16:53:16 GMT
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- paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
-
- > However the experiment is still conceptually simple. You change the
- > relative angle between polarizers and observe the times of detections
- > at both locations. You will see a clear shift from many joint detections
- > to few joint detections or the reverse depending on what direction
- > you are changing the angles. QM predicts that this change will be fast
- > enough that no local process could generate such a result. The time
- > will be less that it takes light to travel from either detector to the
- > *more distant* polarizer. To prove this is truly the case you need an
- > experiment where you directly measure the time when you change
- > polarizer angles and compare this time to a statistical estimate of
- > the time when the probability for joint detections changed. This estimate
- > must be based on direct observations of detections.
-
- Won't this experiment only allow conclusions of the form "There is a
- 33% probability that a non-local process is at work"?
-
- After all, you might see the first third of the shift from few-to-many
- joint detections happen in less time than it takes light to travel to
- each detector from the more distant polarizer. The remainder of the
- shift happens "too late" to be evidence of a non-local process.
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