Planetary rovers, SETI and other musings, was Re: update.356(fwd)

Steve Schear schear at lvdi.net
Tue Jan 27 23:46:14 PST 1998



>This was discovered when the first experiments to verify the
>Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky effect were done.  You need the results of
>measurements on the opposite end to decrypt the information at the end you
>are at.

I guess I'm over my head in such matters.  From my, admitedly, shallow
understanding of wave function collapse, etc., I was under the apparent
misimpression that once collapsed (e.g., by Alice entangling a 'modulation'
photon M (of a known polarization) with one member (photon A) of an
entangled pair, one of which was sent to Alice and the other (photon B)
which was sent to Bob, photon B's polarization state was determined and
could not subsequently be altered by Bob's measurement with his receiver.
Could you recommend a good article which explain this paradox to a
non-quantum mechanic?

--Steve








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