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From: bilbo.niket@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU ("Niket K. Patwardhan")
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Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V6 #38
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Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 13:22:25 EST
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>(9) "	Aspect's Paris experiment shows the reality of nonlocal photon spin-
>	spin quantum correlations over faster than light space-like
>	separations between the detections of photons emitted in a
>	double quantum jump. "
>
>    Not a fair presentation.  The experiment shows, that if one of two
>    correlated photons is perturbed, the other changes state in a manner
>    that implies awareness of the perturbation.  To an external observer,
>    the photons may be some distance apart.  But to an observer on one of
>    the photons, they are still in contact (Lorentz equation), and so it
>    is not anomalous that one should affect the other.
>
The original message to which this was a reply to, was pure gobbledygook to me.
(I thought it was a joke!) But.... since enough people seem to have taken it
seriously.... does the above mean that INFORMATION can be transmitted
instantaneously? I couldn't care less what the observers on the photons would
think, the external observer would see an instantaneous transmission of
information.

I like the explanation though... it has a nice satisfying feeling to it.