Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-15 Thread Hal Finney
John Collins, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > Do we live in a universe in which future coin tosses will invariably result > in "heads," or one in which a mixture of results will occur? > Of course, we live in both, but the latter constitutes a numerically much > larger class of universes; one would

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-15 Thread John Collins
day, November 13, 2003 5:30 PM Subject: Re: "spooky action at a distance" > This list is dedicated to exploring the implications of the prospect > that all universes exist. According to this principle, universes > exist with all possible laws of physics. It follows that universes

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-14 Thread Benjamin Udell
>> Or conceivably could an SAS in a classically deterministic universe surmise >> something like a Level III multiverse, from considerations of the (ontological?) >> status(es) of terms of alternatives, alternatives of the types studied in logic >> (e.g. multivalue logic), mathematical theory of

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-14 Thread Joao Leao
scerir wrote: Joao Leao: > The association between non-locality and "retrocausality" > (for lack of a better word) is anything but simple! In any > case it has less to do with the flow of time than with its > negation! [...] Bell's theorem shows that, given the hidden variable lambda, the result

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-14 Thread scerir
Joao Leao: > The association between non-locality and "retrocausality" > (for lack of a better word) is anything but simple! In any > case it has less to do with the flow of time than with its > negation! [...] Bell's theorem shows that, given the hidden variable lambda, the result of the experim

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 09:30 13/11/03 -0800, Hal Finney wrote: This list is dedicated to exploring the implications of the prospect that all universes exist. According to this principle, universes exist with all possible laws of physics. So by "all universes exists" you mean "all physical universes" exists? It f

RE: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread David Barrett-Lennard
By small I meant "small number of particles". - David -Original Message- From: scerir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2003 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "spooky action at a distance" David Barrett-Lennard > According to QM, in

RE: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread David Barrett-Lennard
TED] Subject: Re: "spooky action at a distance" This list is dedicated to exploring the implications of the prospect that all universes exist. According to this principle, universes exist with all possible laws of physics. It follows that universes exist which follow the MWI; and unive

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread Hal Finney
Benjamin Udell, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > As I recall, Tegmark also said that there would be classically > deterministic universes, with no quantum physics at all. So, it seems > that an SAS in such a universe would have no reason to surmise a Level > III multiverse. It makes you wonder what

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
n Udell - Original Message - From: "Hal Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:30 PM Subject: Re: "spooky action at a distance" This list is dedicated to exploring the implications of the prospect that all unive

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
Hal Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:30 PM Subject: Re: "spooky action at a distance" This list is dedicated to exploring the implications of the prospect that all universes exist. According to this principle, universe

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread Joao Leao
Hal Finney wrote: This list is dedicated to exploring the implications of the prospect that all universes exist.  According to this principle, universes exist with all possible laws of physics.  It follows that universes exist which follow the MWI; and universes exist where only one branch is rea

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread scerir
> http://arXiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9501011 > Both the "protective" and the "weak-value" experiments > associated with this idea are now being tried out... > -Joao Yes and they are testing the famous 3-quantum-boxes paradox http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310091 with related negative probabilities! Ca

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread Hal Finney
This list is dedicated to exploring the implications of the prospect that all universes exist. According to this principle, universes exist with all possible laws of physics. It follows that universes exist which follow the MWI; and universes exist where only one branch is real and where the othe

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread Joao Leao
scerir wrote: David Barrett-Lennard > Isn't "non-locality" simply associated with > the ability for the "future" to affect the "past"? Imo future and past means time, and light cones, etc. If there is no flow of time, there is no past, and no future. The association between non-locality and "retr

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread Joao Leao
scerir wrote: David Barrett-Lennard > According to QM, in small systems evolving according to the Hamiltonian, > time certainly exists but there is no arrow of time within the scope of > the experiment.  In such small systems we can run the movie backwards > and everything looks normal. Yes, but

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread scerir
David Barrett-Lennard > According to QM, in small systems evolving according to the Hamiltonian, > time certainly exists but there is no arrow of time within the scope of > the experiment. In such small systems we can run the movie backwards > and everything looks normal. Yes, but how small? Bec

RE: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread David Barrett-Lennard
opic measuring device) is able to send advanced waves backwards in time, backward through the slits interacting with the electron gun attempting to emit an electron, rather than say that the "particle behaves like a wave", or there is a "pilot wave steering the electron".

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-13 Thread scerir
David Barrett-Lennard > Isn't "non-locality" simply associated with > the ability for the "future" to affect the "past"? Imo future and past means time, and light cones, etc. If there is no flow of time, there is no past, and no future. But I may be wrong. Because, at this level, as pointed o

RE: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-12 Thread David Barrett-Lennard
vember 2003 6:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "spooky action at a distance" Norman Samish: > This is unsatisfying. Yes. It is also called the "conspiracy" between QM and SR. > I would like to hear speculations on non-locality. There are many in QM. I mean many no

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-12 Thread scerir
forgot the links :-) Antoine Suarez http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0311004 Asher Peres http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310010

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-12 Thread scerir
Norman Samish: > This is unsatisfying. Yes. It is also called the "conspiracy" between QM and SR. > I would like to hear speculations on non-locality. There are many in QM. I mean many non-localities. In example the famous 'collapse', the 'Aharonov-Bohm' effect (also with neutral particles),

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-12 Thread scerir
> We are told that string theory needs 11 dimensions - could it be, for > example, that there is another dimension in which the entangled particles > are adjacent to each other? > Norman Of course here we are speaking of spooky actions as possible *physical* effects, involving, or not, superlumi

Re: "spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-12 Thread Joao Leao
Norman Samish wrote: I've been reading about "spooky action at a distance" at http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/kenny/papers/bell.html and several other sites. "Spooky action-at-a-distance" is a catchy but misleading description of EPR-Bell type quantum correlations beca

"spooky action at a distance"

2003-11-12 Thread Norman Samish
I've been reading about "spooky action at a distance" at http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/kenny/papers/bell.html and several other sites. I'm told that non-locality is a phenomenon that is proven. A review of experiments makes it clear that "spooky action at a distance