RE: The Universe Was Never a Singularity
March 17, 2013 at 10:38 am
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2013 at 10:39 am by little_monkey.)
(March 16, 2013 at 7:56 pm)Aractus Wrote: See this example of the failings of the double-slit quantum-erasure experiment on my blog, where I point out one very big problem with the present theory.
This is a bit off topic, but will give it a go. I went to your link. Though I will confess I didn't really go over the experiment outlined, I did read some flaws in your description:
1)"basically once an entangled pair is created they are not only identical in every way to each other, but what happens to one affects the other"
An entangled pair is one in which if one property is known for one particle, you automatically know that property for the second particle. For example, If we know that one particle has spin "up", then we know the other has spin "down". We know it because the system was prepared in that way.
2) "but what happens to one affects the other; even in the future or the past, and even at any distance apart "
No, that's wrong. The two entangled particles will stay in whatever quantum state they were prepared, as long as there were no inteference, meaning no interaction took place between the entangled pair with other particles.
3) "However, for simplicity they can literally be thought of as being the exact same particle occupying two places in space-time."
Again, that's wrong. We are talking about two particles, never one particle. Incompatible observables, such as position and momentum, which are governed by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles, applies to one particle, not to two particles. It's a mistake many people do.
Now, I haven't looked at the experiment. Maybe one day if I have time, I might. But right now, I have other cats to skin.
