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[David Morris]

Interbeing.  Nothing is not connected.


On Saturday, February 22, 2014, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:

> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140220112515.htm
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> In a paper published this week in the journal Physical Review Letters,
> MIT researchers propose an experiment that may close the last major
> loophole of Bell's inequality -- a 50-year-old theorem that, if
> violated by experiments, would mean that our universe is based
> not on the textbook laws of classical physics, but on the less tangible
> probabilities of quantum mechanics.
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> Such a quantum view would allow for seemimgly counterintuitive
> phenomenon such as entanglement...
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> Among other things, entanglement -- a quantum feature Albert Einstein
> skeptically referred to as "spooky action at a distance" -- seems to
> suggest that entangled particles can affect each other instantly,
> faster than the speed of light...
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> Though two major loopholes have since been closed, a third remains;
> physicists refer to it as "setting indepedence," or more provocatively,
> "free will." This loophole proposes that a particle detector's settings
> may "conspire" with events in the shared causal past of the detectors
> themselves to determine which properties of the particle to measure -
> a scenario that, however far-fetched, implies that a physicist running
> the experiment does not have complete free will in choosing each
> detector's setting. Such a scenario would result in biased
> measurements, suggesting that two particles are correlated more
> than they actually are, and giving more weight to quantum mechanics
> than classical physics.
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> "Dogs run free...why not me?"
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