On Friday, April 13, 2018 at 2:24:11 PM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Friday, April 13, 2018 at 6:53:23 PM UTC, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 4/13/2018 6:44 AM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> *But since the momentum of either particle doesn't pre-exist the >> measurement, there is a FTL influence, which IS hard to understand. In >> fact, I doubt anyone does understand it. AG * >> >> >> What would it mean to "understand it" besides being able to use the >> equations to make correct inferences? >> >> Brent >> > > *It's an ostensible contradiction with relativity that information > transfer cannot be instantaneous. Now please don't use the semantic dodge > that there is no information transfer because it's just an "influence". AG* >
The reason touching an entangled system here is correlated with it there is the system is the same in both regions of space. Quantum mechanics is not really primarily about causality in space or spacetime, but rather has a representation in space and time. LC -- 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.
