RE: Fermi "Paradox"

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 01:13:11 MDT

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    At 11:35 PM 8/6/03 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:

    >Can it be determined, at detector number two, whether
    >the wave function has already--presumably at detector
    >number one--been "collapsed", whether the photons have
    >already been "disentangled"?

    The argument I made (borrowing from Tim Maudlin) in THE WHITE ABACUS is
    that you can't even tell which one gets collapsed first, because in
    relativity you can jiggle frames to argue either one happens before the other.

    But I am not a lawyer.

    Damien Broderick



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