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- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Path: sparky!uunet!well!sarfatti
- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: re:Gallis breakthrough - "local" dynamics & "nonlocal" psi
- Message-ID: <C1KyKD.D6n@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:07:25 GMT
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- >>You forgot one of the most important, which is LOCALITY!!!!!
- >
- >No Mike, I did not forget locality, but I did not include it because
- >Bell's theorem shows that locality is not consistent with standard quantum
- >mechanics. Therefore, locality cannot be the reason that standard quantum
- >mechanics forbids quantum connection communication.
- >
- ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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- >You are (still) failing to distinguish between nonlocal quantum coherence
- >in the wavefunction, and nonlocal evolution in the hamiltonian!!!
- >Even with nonlocal quantum coherence, local evolution is incompatible with
- >FTL communication.
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- No, Mike, I have always assumed that the Hamiltonians are local in the
- field picure with jA coupling. If they were nonlocal over macro-distances
- then I suppose it would be no surprise to have FTL communication.
- Whenever,I use "nonlocal" I mean in the wave function which I consider to
- be physically real in the sense of Bohm's quantum potential. I am quite
- clear about the distinction between Hamiltonian and wavefunction. Since it
- never crossed my mind to make the dynamics nonlocal in this game I was not
- understanding what you were saying in that regard since it is not at all
- relevant to what I am trying to do, i.e. quantum connection communication
- because of nonlocal wavefunction with local particle-field couplings.
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