[ExI] Many Worlds (was: A Simulation Argument)
Lee Corbin
lcorbin at rawbw.com
Wed Jan 16 03:42:18 UTC 2008
John Clark writes
> Me
>>> A billion years before I was born somebody in the Virgo Cluster
>>> started making pairs of photons that have identical but
>>> unknown polarization....
> Unknown to anyone and perhaps unknown to anything. It might be that
> asking what polarization angle the photons were set at before they were
> measured is a foolish and meaningless question,
Yes, it is.
> or it might not be. I don't know.
I believe that proposing that the photon already has a hidden attitude
is refuted by Bell's inequality. In other words, to already have a
value would cause it to fall into the class of "hidden variable".
Lee
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