On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Your simulation assumes the quantum mechanical results. In other words, it > assumes non-locality in order to calculate the statistics. Where does the > cos^2(theta/2) come from in your analysis? > The question I asked you was whether you thought you could definitively disprove the idea that all the observable statistics of QM could be reproduced by rules that are "local" in the specific narrow sense I had described to you--remember all that stuff about having computers determining what the value of local variables at each point in spacetime should be, using only information about the value of local variables in the past light cone of that point, plus the general rules programmed into them (which take that information about the past light cone as input, and spit out the value of local variables at that point as output)? This is a narrow and mathematically well-defined question (and is based specifically on how Bell defined 'locality'), it's completely irrelevant to the question whether or not the *idea* for the rules that I programmed into the computers that perform these local calculations came from looking at some equations that are written in a 'non-local' way (i.e., the equations generate their predictions by evolving a single 'state vector' for the entire spatially-distributed system). Do you understand this distinction between the narrow, well-defined definition of "local rules" (if you're unclear on what I mean here, please ask), and broader questions about what inspired the rules themselves? And are you claiming that even if we restrict our attention to the narrow definition of "local rules", you can still say with 100% certainty that no such "local rules" can accurately reproduce all the predictions about measurement outcomes made by QM? Jesse -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
