[ExI] Many Worlds (was: A Simulation Argument)

[Damien Broderick]

At 09:16 PM 1/13/2008 +0300, Vladimir Nesov wrote:

>But why is it weird? Photons are 'black boxes' that can produce
>responses  during interaction with experimental setup, and you can't
>know contents of these black boxes prior to actually looking. So each
>photon 'knows' how it will respond to next experiment, but you do not.
>Photons in an entangled pair are synchronized, that is their
>'contents' are the same, but still unknown to you. Then, when you
>independently probe them, you get the same result, since they have the
>same 'contents'.

That's exactly what Bell, and experiments based on his work, 
*disproved*. (At least, that's the standard interpretation: no hidden 
variables.)

Damien Broderick