Re: FTL by Down-converting

From: Horace Heffner (hheffner_at_mtaonline.net)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:46:07 +0000 (UTC)

In article <3ee76016.0410260508.1f25a04e@posting.google.com>,
ser_monmail@yahoo.fr (seratend) wrote:

> hheffner@mtaonline.net (Horace Heffner) wrote in message
news:<hheffner-2510040558170001@dialups-321.palmer.mtaonline.net>...
> > FTL by Down-converting
> >
> >
> > Bob will in fact see such an interference pattern provided Alice does not
> > put detectors in idler beams R1 and L1.[1] If Alice does place detectors
> > in both her beams, then this is equivalent to knowing which path each of
> > Bob's photons have traveled, and thus Bob can observe no interference
> > pattern.
>
> So you beleave that the 50/50 satistics of Bob photons (|+>,|->) are
> simply changed with an action of Alice at the end of the universe?

It is not my belief that is important. It is devising an experiment that
will let nature teach us something new that is the objective.

Regards,
                                 
Horace Heffner

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