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David I always love you.

Always.

All ways.  Any ways.

An. Ea.


On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 9:27 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> Such a quantum view would allow for seemimgly counterintuitive
>> phenomenon such as entanglement...
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> "Dogs run free...why not me?"
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