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Subject: Can Spooky Action allow instantaneous communication?

Date: Wed Apr 8 23:15:43 1998
Posted by Greg Carpluk
Grade level: other
School: Uh, none anymore
City: Los Gatos State/Province: CA
Country: US
Area of science: Physics
ID: 892095343.Ph
Message:


I've recently been reading about the nature of photons and other light 
quanta.  This question involves a number of tests performed since the 
60's -- the one I site is the Aspect experiment, thogh there have been 
others.

From the results of the Aspect experiment, and another more recent 
experiment where spooky action was observed in photons 10KM apart, it 
has been shown that the act of observing a photon in one location 
instantly collapses the wave function of another photon (emitted in 
the opposite direction by the same electron, at the same instant).

Given that the statistical pattern of photon polarity changes in one 
location, depending on whether or not the polarity of its sibling is 
being measured in another location, couldn't a scientist devise an 
experiment to send a basic Morse Code message by alternately observing 
and not observing light quanta?  Shouldn't this show up in the 
statistical analysis of photons arriving in the second location?  
Could an experiment like the Aspect experiment simply be performed 
with the same setup, but on a repeated basis where some photons are 
observed and some aren't, in order to send such a message?  Or does 
the nature of Spooky Action require the results of the observations in 
Location A to be *known by* the observer in Location B in order for 
the statistics to change?


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