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From: jh5c+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Hagerman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: TI announcement
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Date: 27 Jan 89 02:18:56 GMT
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> *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.arch:*
> *26-Jan-89 Re: TI announcement s m ryan@garth.UUCP (1142)*
> The experiment I heard about had a pair of photons created from electron-
> positron annihilation.  [...]

> As it turned out, measuring one photon perturbed the other apparently
> instanteously. Thus the LOSS of information might propagate with arbitrary
> speed.
> The question is, can the loss of information itself be information? Someone
> was suppose to look into it, but I have never heard any more.
See the article "The Reality of the Quantum World" in Scientific American,
Jan 1988.  Note especially the middle column on page 50 which explains
why this won't work.

- John