Re: Schrodinger Aether vs Michelson-Morley

manofsan@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
Saying that you can have spooky action at a distance but that it just
can't communicate, [...]. In other
words, it doesn't sound plausible or rational.


You confuse yourself by mis-stating the situation.

Quantum mechanics does not have "spooky action at a distance", it actually has spooky _CORRELATION_ at a distance.


Here's an example: take a red ball and a green ball, and hidden from John and Joe place one in each of their pockets, telling them to not look at it until they get home. When they get to their separate homes, John looks in his pocket, sees a red ball, and immediately concludes Joe has a green ball in his pocket. Note that John's action did not change anything about Joe's pocket -- there is _correlation_ at a distance, but not any sort of "action".

The correlations of QM are more subtle than this, but the principle is similar. In particular, neither John nor Joe sent any information to the other, and they cannot possibly use this to communicate with each other -- communication is between YOU and each of them.


Tom Roberts	tjroberts@xxxxxxxxxx
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