From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 01:48:41 MDT
Damien writes
> 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.
But you are right. This resembles the EPR situation, and
I have an essay that explains the MWI version of EPR.
http://www.leecorbin.com/EPR_MWI.html
Damien is exactly right. If the separation between two
events P and Q is spacelike, (which only means that there
is no way to send a photon from one event to the other),
then if you are traveling with sufficient velocity towards
the space coordinates of P, then in your reference frame
P will happen first. Vice-versa for Q.
Lee
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