[General] [SPAM?] Re: research papers

[Chip Akins]

Hi Richard

 

My opinion follows…

 

It is interesting that they claim to have closed all loopholes in this test and claim to have proven that entanglement is real.  

 

While they may have conducted a far better test, that will not help as long as they keep using the same mathematical premise for “proving” entanglement.

 

A local variable based on spin of a spatially extended model of the electron, can yield exactly the same results, so what is it that they have proven?

 

Physics today is burdened by illusion and myth. This is a strong statement.  But look at history and find any time in human history when this statement was not true. So why would we think that this is not the current condition as well? But let us be more specific.  The current identifiable illusions and myths have only a few candidates.  “Point particles” is one illusion and myth which is fairly easy to specify as such. Our physical experience, and the math, tell us that for an object to have spin angular momentum it must have a spatial distribution. Interestingly, when we understand that rotation with a spatial extent causes spin angular momentum, we also uncover the subtle evidence of another myth. “Entanglement” appears an illusion and a myth caused by our misunderstanding of the property of spin, and of our measurements, of subatomic particles.

 

Chip

 

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Hi Al and all,

   More on the Delft Bell-test experiment. The article was published in Nature on 21 October. It was just summarized at http://www.opli.net/opli_magazine/eo/2015/loophole-free-bell-test-tu-delft-crowns-80-years-old-debate-on-nature-of-reality-einsteins-spooky-action-is-real-oct-news/ . A quote "PhD-student Bas Hensen, lead-author of the study. “We also close the detection loophole, because in this experiment we measure all our entangled pairs. This is the first time all loopholes are closed at the same time in a single experiment, and we still find that the invisible bond between the electrons is there: the first loophole-free Bell test”.  

    Are minds clanging shut and is this idea (predicted by QM) becoming a dogma so that other possible explanations are still being ignored? Or is the experiment (and the Bell inequalities derivation) really airtight?

        Richard

 

On Oct 25, 2015, at 8:12 AM, af.kracklauer at web.de <mailto:af.kracklauer at web.de>  wrote:

 

Hi Richard & all:

 

This article resulted from an interview with the experiemnters and describes their interpretation without telling how, or even what, they did.  Note also, the second sentence calls on von Neumann's Projection Hypothsis, an, per Karl Popper, inadmisible scientific principle.  Noone can say what WAS, before looking.  

 

The whole story depends on wheather this experiment can be understood in classical optics terms, or not.  Bell claims not, but it's easy, altthough tedious.  Here's how:  Get a precise description of the equipment. Write down the matrix form of the tranfer function for each optical element.  Multiply them all togeter in the order in which the beam(s) encounters them.  Graph the result as a function of whatever variable(s) wind(s) up being independant, i.e., adjustable by the experimentors.  Then compare that curve(s) with the reported results (NOT the interpreted results!)  

 

The Delft team will be want to describe the results in the usual (nowadays) sexy-mystical quantum palaver.  Don't take it.  Get the results as recorded from the final detector(s). 99% of the time this will be a voltage or current as a function of angles.  Expect resistance!  They may not give specific info  on the equipment (make and model); They may give the final data either as "reduced" (which can include tossing contrary elemets)  or in some raw form for which a propritary algorithm is required, etc.)  Then again, they may not.  

 

Now, add your own classical story; which, I bet, will fit flawlessly.

 

BUT, WARNING:  If you need to get funding or tenure, praise their brilliance and drop the matter!  

 

I have been told that the link to my past papers is kaput.  In fact, I just garbbeld it.  Try: http://www.nonloco-physics.0catch.com/   A couple papers there apply just the tactic mentioned here to past experiments.  The main difference with this Delft experiment is likely no more than the long optical path length, giving enought time so it can be argued that the detectors could not on their own collude to trick us into believing in superluminal trasnmission.  Notice the schizophrenic aspect: the point of the experiment is to show the reality of superluminial interaction of some kind in the first place!  How's that for consitent logic? But then, those who take seriously that detectors might collude like like politicians ....! 

 

Regards,  Al

  

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This entanglement experiment in Delft (Netherlands) was reported in Time magazine “What Einstein got wrong about the speed of light" on 22 October at http://time.com/4083823/einstein-entanglement-quantum/ . Can anyone see any loopholes?

     Richard



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