On 17 January 2014 07:56, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/16/2014 1:48 AM, LizR wrote: > > On 16 January 2014 20:00, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 1/15/2014 7:08 PM, LizR wrote: >> >> On 16 January 2014 14:11, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> You can do that (in fact it may have been done). You have two >>> emitters with polarizers and a detector at which you post-select only those >>> particles that arrive and form a singlet. Then you will find that the >>> correlation counts for that subset violates Bell's inequality for polarizer >>> settings of 30, 60, 120deg. >>> >>> I assume that means Price's (and Bell's) assumption that violations of >> Bell's inequality can be explained locally and realistically with time >> symmetry is definitely wrong...? >> >> >> ?? Why do you conclude that? It's the time-reverse of the EPR that >> violated BI. >> >> Because as I (perhaps mis-) understand it, Price claims that we need to > take both past AND future boundary conditions into account to explain EPR > with time symmetry. If we can explain it with only a forward in time or > backward in time explanation, then we aren't using both. > > > But in the reverse EPR we are in effect using both past and future > boundary conditions. At the emitters we set the polarizers - that's the > past boundary condition. At the single detector we post-select only those > incoming pairs that form a net-zero spin; so that's a future boundary > condition. >
I must admit I thought you were saying we could do it using ONLY the future boundary conditions. If you use both then you should logically use both in the forwards case, too, so I assume Price's explanation still stands. > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
