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SPOOKY ACTIONSAT A DISTANCE?
Hofstadter Lecture, Stanford, April 4, 2011
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THE QUANTUM THEORY
The most accurate and successful theoryin the history of science
The foundation of contemporary technology
The greatest intellectual achievement of the 20th century
But it is . . .quite strange.
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Prologue.
The Vision of Einstein;
The Caution of Bohr.
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Einstein on the Quantum Theory
I cannot seriously believe in it because thetheory cannot be reconciled with the ideathat physics should represent a reality intime and space, free from spooky actionsat a distance.
— Einstein (to Max Born)
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Einstein on the Quantum Theory
I cannot seriously believe in it because thetheory cannot be reconciled with the ideathat physics should represent a reality intime and space, free from spooky actionsat a distance.
— Einstein (to Max Born)
spukhafte Fernwirkungen
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Einstein on the Quantum Theory
Most [physicists] simply do not see what sort of riskygame they are playing with reality — reality assomething independent of what is experimentally es-tablished.
— Einstein (to Erwin Schrodinger)
No reasonable definition of reality could be expectedto permit this.
— Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen
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Niels Bohr on the Quantum Theory
I was strongly reminded of the importance of utmostcaution in all questions of terminology and dialectics.
— Bohr (remembering his debates with Einstein)
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Niels Bohr on the Quantum Theory
I was strongly reminded of the importance of utmostcaution in all questions of terminology and dialectics.
— Bohr (remembering his debates with Einstein)
Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study ofsomething a priori given, but rather as the develop-ment of methods for ordering and surveying humanexperience.
— Bohr (The Unity of Human Knowledge)
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Most [physicists] simply do not see what sort of riskygame they are playing with reality — reality as some-thing independent of what is experimentally estab-lished. — Einstein
Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study ofsomething a priori given, but rather as the develop-ment of methods for ordering and surveying humanexperience. — Bohr
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Part I.
Can a Thing Possess
(Real) Properties?
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QUESTION:
Does the color flashed by D signifya (real) property of the thing from S?
If so, name that (real) property “color”.
Two types of things come out of S:Those “colored” blue, and those “colored” red.
D detects which type of thing has entered it.
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FOR EXAMPLE:
Things are hot or cold.Detector flashes red for hot things,
blue for cold things.“Color” = Temperature
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Things are cubes or spheres.Detector flashes red for cubes, blue for spheres.“Color” = Shape
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ALTERNATIVE “COLORLESS” EXPLANATIONS:
Things from S are all identical.
• D decides to flash red or blueby tossing a coin.
• Whether D flashes red or blue depends onthe exact time the thing enters it.
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When testing device inserted between S and D,testing device always flashes same color as D.
So thing emerging from testing device flashingblue (red) is surely “colored” blue (red).
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QUESTION:
Does thing entering testing device have “color”?Or is “color” given to it by the testing device?
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ANSWER WITH SECOND TESTING DEVICE:
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TT2 1
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Second testing device shows that first testing devicecorrectly identifies “color” of things that have “color”.
But it fails to establish that untested things have“color”
QUESTION: Do untested things have “color”?
Is there a “reality. . .independentof what is experimentally established”?
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Part II.
Can a Thing Possess
Two Different (Real) Properties?
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TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF DETECTORS
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QUESTION:
Can a thing have both 1-color and 2-color?
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(1-color is property signified by type-1 detector)(2-color is property signified by type-2 detector)
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Convenient to package both kinds of detectorsinto single box with switch:
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ALSO TWO KINDS OF TESTING DEVICES:
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Type 1 testing device always works with type 1 detector.
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But type 1 testing device is wrong half the time withtype 2 detector.
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Type 2 testing device always works with type 2 detector.
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But type 2 testing device is wrong half the time withtype 1 detector.
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QUESTION: Can a thing have both 1-color and 2-color?
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(This could be established if there were a joint testingdevice that always worked, regardless of whether itwas followed by a type 1 or a type 2 detector.)
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QUESTION: Can a thing have both 1-color and 2-color?
211 2
(But no such joint testing device has ever been madeand we shall see at the end of this lecturethat no such joint testing device is possible.)
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Testing for 2-color messes up 1-color
1 221
If type 2 testing device comes between type 1 testingdevice and type 1 detector, then type 1 testing deviceis wrong half the time at type 1 detector
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And testing for 1-color messes up 2-color
2 121
If type 1 testing device comes between type 2 testingdevice and type 2 detector, then type 2 testing deviceis wrong half the time at type 2 detector
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EINSTEIN:
Even though there is no wayto learn what both of them are,a thing should nevertheless haveboth a 1-color and a 2-color.
“. . .reality as something independentof what is experimentally established.”
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AN OBVIOUS REJOINDER:
“One should no more rack one’s brain about the
problem of whether something one cannot know any-
thing about exists all the same, than about the an-
cient question of how many angels are able to sit on
the point of a needle. But it seems to me that Ein-
stein’s questions are ultimately always of this kind.”
— Wolfgang Pauli (to Max Born)
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Part III.
Einstein’s Neat Idea
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Stuff left behind
21
Don’t test thing itself; test some stuff it leaves behind it !
Testing stuff it left behind can’t mess up the thing .It can only mess up the stuff left behind.
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Stuff left behind
21
Don’t test thing itself; test some stuff it leaves behind it !
Testing stuff it left behind can’t mess up the thing .It can only mess up the stuff left behind.
Paper in 1935 describes how this can actually be done.
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leftStuff
behind
21
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leftStuff
behind
21
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leftStuff
behind
21
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leftStuff
behind
21
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leftStuff
behind
21
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SLB testing devices
1
21
2
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Testing Stuff left behind for 1-color.
1
21
2
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Testing Stuff left behind for 2-color.
1
21
2
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1
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2
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EINSTEIN:
Can successfully test stuff left behind for 1-colorwithout messing up the thing.
Can successfully test stuff left behind for 2-colorwithout messing up the thing.
Therefore thing has both 1-color and 2-color!
Performing either test on stuff left behindmesses up stuff left behind.
But it can’t mess up the thing, becausethe thing isn’t there any more.
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EINSTEIN’S CONCLUSION:
The thing has both 1-color and 2-color(even though you can only learn one of them)
SLB testing devices
1
21
2
R B21
“Every statement about [the thing] which we arriveat as a result of [testing the stuff it left behind] hasto be valid for [the thing] even if no [test] whatsoeveris carried out on [the stuff it left behind].”
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BOHR’S OBJECTION:
All it means for the thingto have 1-color (or 2-color)is that 1-color (or 2-color) has beenindicated by a type-1 (or type-2) test.
But you can’t do both testson the stuff left behind becauseeither test messes upthe stuff left behind.
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OBVIOUS OBJECTION TO BOHR’S OBJECTION:
Yes, either test messes up the stuff left behind.
But in the absence of spooky actions at a distance
it can’t mess up the thing,
because the thing isn’t there any more!
BOHR’S REJOINDER:
It does mess up the thing, because it messes up
“the very conditions which define the possible
types of predictions regarding the future behavior of”
the thing.
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JOHN BELL’S REACTION:
R B21
It is so reasonable to assume that the [things]. . .carry with them [properties]. . .telling them how tobehave. . . .I think that when Einstein saw that,and the others refused to see it, he was the rationalman. The other people, . . .were burying their headsin the sand. I feel that Einstein’s intellectual supe-riority over Bohr, in this instance, was enormous —a vast gulf between the man who saw clearly whatwas needed, and the obscurantist.
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Part IV.
Why Einstein Was Wrong
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B
12
C
1 2
A
21
Refinement of Bell’s(1964) demonstrationby Greenberger, Horne,and Zeilinger (1989)
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THREE THINGSTHAT GO TO THREE DETECTORS
B
12
C
1 2
A
21
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Label the three things by thethree detectors they are going to.
B
12
C
1 2
A
21
A B
C
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Stuff leftbehind by thing C
B
12
C
1 2
A
21
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behind by thing BStuff left
B
12
C
1 2
A
21
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behind by thing AStuff left
B
12
C
1 2
A
21
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1 2
A
21
C
B
12
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1 2
A
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C
B
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B
12
1 2
A
21
C
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B
12
1 2
A
21
C
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B
12
1 2
A
21
C
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RRB
2 1 2
A B C
1 2
A
21
C
B
12
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SOME CRUCIALFEATURESOF THE DATA B
12
1 2
A
21
C
B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211
blue
red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
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SOME CRUCIALFEATURESOF THE DATA B
12
1 2
A
21
C
B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211
blue
red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
Paper in 1989 describes how this can actually be done.
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SOME CRUCIALFEATURESOF THE DATA B
12
1 2
A
21
C
B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211
blue
red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
(Aside from these restrictions, behavior is random.)
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SOME CRUCIALFEATURESOF THE DATA B
12
1 2
A
21
C
B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211
blue
red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
(Aside from these restrictions, behavior is random;e.g. in 212 run BRR, RBR, RRB, BBBare all equally likely.)
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SOME CRUCIALFEATURESOF THE DATA B
12
1 2
A
21
C
B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211
blue
red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
(Aside from these restrictions, behavior is random;e.g. in 222 runs all 8 outcomes, RRR, RBB, BRB, BBR,BRR, RBR, RRB, BBB, are equally likely.)
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SOME CRUCIALFEATURESOF THE DATA B
12
1 2
A
21
C
B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211
blue
red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
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LEARNING 2-COLOROF THING GOING TO CFROM THE STUFFIT LEFT BEHIND
2 1 2: Odd number flash blue.
Stuff leftbehind
B
12
C
1 2
A
21
To learn 2-color at C send SLB totype-2 at A and type-1 at B.
If both flash blue or both flash red,thing going to C has 2-color blue.
If one flashes blue and other flashes red,thing going to C has 2-color red.
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LEARNING 2-COLOROF THING GOING TO CFROM THE STUFFIT LEFT BEHIND
1 2 2: Odd number flash blue.
Stuff leftbehind
C
1 2
A
21
B
12
To learn 2-color at C send SLB totype-1 at A and type-2 at B.
If both flash blue or both flash red,thing going to C has 2-color blue.
If one flashes blue and other flashes red,thing going to C has 2-color red.
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LEARNING 1-COLOROF THING GOING TO CFROM THE STUFFIT LEFT BEHIND
2 2 1: Odd number flash blue.
Stuff leftbehind
C
1 2
A
21
B
12
To learn 1-color at C send SLB totype-2 at A and at B.
If both flash blue or both flash red,thing going to C has 1-color blue.
If one flashes blue and other flashes red,thing going to C has 1-color red.
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LEARNING 1-COLOROF THING GOING TO CFROM THE STUFFIT LEFT BEHIND
1 1 1: Odd number flash red.
Stuff leftbehind
C
1 2
A
21
B
12
To learn 1-color at C send SLB totype-1 at A and at B.
If both flash blue or both flash red,thing going to C has 1-color red.
If one flashes blue and other flashes red,thing going to C has 1-color blue.
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OR CAN LEARN 1-COLOR OR 2-COLOR OF THING
GOING TO B, FROM THE STUFF IT LEFT BEHIND
Stuff leftbehind
B
12
C
1 2
A
21
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OR CAN LEARN 1-COLOR OR 2-COLOR OF THING
GOING TO A, FROM THE STUFF IT LEFT BEHIND
Stuff leftbehind
B
12
A
21
C
1 2
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EINSTEIN’S CONCLUSION:ALL THREE THINGS HAVE 1-COLOR AND 2-COLOR
R?
R ? ? B
RBR 1 2
A
21
C
B
12
A B C
2
21
21
21
1 2
Every statementabout [the thing]which we arrive atas a result of[testing the stuff itleft behind] has to bevalid for [the thing]if no [test] whatsoeveris carried out on[the stuff it left behind].
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WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT THE UNKNOWN1-COLORS AND 2-COLORS?
R
R?
?
?R ? B
R RB
R
? B
?
1 2
A
21
C
B
12
A B C
2
21
21
A
B
C
1 2
21
21
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Suppose we have a 122 run in whichA flashes red, B flashes blue, and C flashes red
B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211
blue
red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
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Suppose we have a 122 run in whichA flashes red, B flashes blue, and C flashes red
B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211 red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
blue
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B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211 red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
blue
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B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211 red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
blue
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B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211 red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
blue
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B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211
blue
red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
odd number blue→
odd number blue→
odd number blue→
even number blue→
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B CA Behavior of Lights2 2112
2 21 1
211
blue
red
blueblue
odd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flashodd number always flash
odd number blue→
odd number blue→
odd number blue→
even number blue→↑ ↑ ↑
even numberblue
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It is so reasonable to assume that the [things]. . .carry with them [properties]. . . telling them how tobehave. . . .I think that when Einstein saw that, andthe others refused to see it, he was the rational man.The other people, although history has justified them,were burying their heads in the sand. I feel thatEinstein’s intellectual superiority over Bohr, in thisinstance, was enormous — a vast gulf between theman who saw clearly what was needed, and the ob-scurantist. So for me, it is a pity that Einstein’s ideadoesn’t work. The reasonable thing just doesn’t work.
— John Bell
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Epilogue.
Where Does This Leave Us?
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DOES THIS MEANTHAT QUANTUM MECHANICS IS WRONG?
NO! NO! NO!
IT IS THE MOST ACCURATE AND USEFULSCIENTIFIC THEORY IN HUMAN HISTORY!
BUT THE BEHAVIOR IT DESCRIBES(in my opinion)
IS SOMETIMES QUITE PECULIAR
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SPOOKY ACTIONS AT A DISTANCE?
1. One has the option of learning either the 1-coloror the 2-color of any one of the things, by testingonly stuff it leaves behind it.
2. But all three things cannot have both a 1-colorand a 2-color.
3. So the act of testing the stuff it leaves behind itmust give a thing its 1-color or 2-color.
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4. Is this spooky action at a distance? Or is it nodifferent from my daughter-in-law having her firstbaby in Boston, Massachusetts, instantly making mea grandfather in Ithaca, New York?
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4. Is this spooky action at a distance? Or is it nodifferent from my daughter-in-law having her firstbaby in Boston, Massachusetts, instantly making mea grandfather in Ithaca, New York?
5. It is different. The thing can be tested by a de-tector that correctly reveals its 1-color or 2-color.But there is no test that can be performed on me inIthaca to determine whether I have become a grand-father, if I have not spoken with Boston on a non-spooky telephone.
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6. Is it really different? We can only be sure that ourdetector has correctly revealed the 1-color or 2-coloruntil we talk to the people who have tested the stuffthe thing left behind.
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6. Is it really different? We can only be sure that ourdetector has correctly revealed the 1-color or 2-coloruntil we talk to the people who have tested the stuffthe thing left behind.
7. Yes, it is really different, because after doing itmany times we find that the detector always agreeswith the test on the stuff left behind, so we don’treally need to check.
8. . . . . . .
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1. One has the option of learning either the 1-color orthe 2-color of any one of the three things by testingonly stuff it leaves behind it.
2. But all three things cannot have both a 1-colorand a 2-color.
3. So the act of testing the stuff it leaves behind itmust give a thing its 1-color or 2-color
3. So a thing cannot have 1-color or 2-color unlessan actual test establishes that that color is R or B.
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Thing C does not have a 2-color unless an actual testestablishes that that color is R or B.
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Thing C does not have a 2-color unless an actual testestablishes that that color is R or B.
Stuff leftbehind
B
12
C
1 2
A
21
Stuff leftbehind
C
1 2
A
21
B
12
Only one of these tests can actually be done. Whyshould the 2-color of C in an an actual test be thesame in a fictitious world where the test is different?
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“Every statement about [the thing] which we arriveat as a result of [testing the stuff it left behind] hasto be valid for [the thing] even if no [test] whatseoveris carried out on [the stuff it left behind].”
— Einstein
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“Every statement about [the thing] which we arriveat as a result of [testing the stuff it left behind] hasto be valid for [the thing] even if no [test] whatseoveris carried out on [the stuff it left behind].”
— Einstein
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“Every statement about [the thing] which we arriveat as a result of [testing the stuff it left behind] hasto be valid for [the thing] even if no [test] whatseoveris carried out on [the stuff it left behind].”
— Einstein
A thing does not have color unless an actual testestablishes that that color is R or B.
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“Every statement about [the thing] which we arriveat as a result of [testing the stuff it left behind] hasto be valid for [the thing] even if no [test] whatseoveris carried out on [the stuff it left behind].”
— Einstein
A thing does not have color unless an actual testestablishes that that color is R or B.
Unperformed experiments have no results.
— Asher Peres
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“Every statement about [the thing] which we arriveat as a result of [testing the stuff it left behind] hasto be valid for [the thing] even if no [test] whatseoveris carried out on [the stuff it left behind].”
— Einstein
A thing does not have color unless an actual testestablishes that that color is R or B.
Unperformed experiments have no results.
— Asher Peres
What didn’t happen didn’t happen.
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A thing does not have color unless an actual testestablishes that that color is R or B even though thetest only messes up the stuff the thing left behind it.
BOHR:
Messing up the stuff left behind does mess up thething, because it messes up “the very conditionswhich define the possible types of predictionsregarding the future behavior of” the thing.
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Afterword.
A Rhetorical Homework Problem
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Let H and V be polarization states for horizontally and vert-ically polarized photons, and let R and L be polarization statesfor two right and left 45◦ diagonal directions, so
H = 1√2(R + L), V = 1√
2(R − L). (1)
Type-1 detectors measure polarization, flashing red if a photonis polarized horizontally and blue if it is polarized vertically. Type-2detectors behave the same way with respect to diagonal photons— i.e. they are given by simply rotating a type-1 detector through45◦ about the line joining it to the source of the three photons.The source produces three photons in the polarization state
1
2(HHH − V V H − V HV − HV V ), (2)
so if all detectors are type 1, an odd number must flash red.Show by appropriate substitutions of (1) into (2) that if only onedetector is type 1, then an odd number must flash blue.
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Reference:
Albert Einstein, Quantenmechanik und Wirklichkeit
Dialectica 2, 320 (1948)
Reprinted in English in
The Born-Einstein Letters
To play with all the figures shown in this talk,
google mermin homepage and click on
“Spooky Actions at a Distance?”.
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