Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Physical Chemistry
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Quantum Crackpot RANDI Challenge Taken: Part 2
In Part 1 the rules for individual particles were extracted from the ”Hidden Variable Madness” blog in the Quantum Crackpot RANDI Challenge. This part discusses the coincidence rule:
5. “Thus, for every pair, we obtain a result Result = a,b(A,B), where a and b tell us the angles, and (A,B) are the values for the exits that Alice’s and Bob’s crystals put their ball through: (A,B) = (0,0), or (0,1), or (1,0), or (1,1)”.
I will use the outcomes: (A,B) = (+1,+1), or (-1,-1), or (+1,-1), or (-1,+1)
Quantum Crackpot Randi Challenge Taken: Part 1
In answering the Crackpot Randi Challenge, I following Crackpot rules to obtain results which agree with the experimental data of Gregor Weihs and Alain Aspect, without entanglement.
Before starting, we need to agree on the rules and the way to proceed.
The Rules are presented in the Challenge under “Hidden Variable Madness“. These are extracted first and clarified:
1. “8000 pairs of tennis balls are each prepared, say some instructions are written on them, and then split. One ball is always thrown to Alice on the left; the second flies to Bob on the right.”
The instructions written on the balls are LHV (Local Hidden Variables) and time stamps.
I deal with one pair at a time, like the experiment. So I will not treat 8000 pairs, only 1. However what works for one pair will work for 8000 pairs.
One pair coming from a singlet state is called an EPR pair. By definition the LHV must always be the same for the two particles that make up an EPR pair.
Bryan Sanctuary, a Professor of Chemistry at McGill University (Montreal, Canada), is the primary author of this blog as well as president of MCH Multimedia. | www.mchmultimedia.com | and co- author of Physical Chemistry - Laidler, Meiser, Sanctuary
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