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Subject: The Epistemological Aspect
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Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 14:03:56 EDT
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From:            Charlie Crummer 

I think that the Aspect experiment is most important in its philosophical
implications.  What it seems to say is that under appropriate conditions some 
attributes of a quantum mechanical system don't exist in the sense that we
understand existence, i.e. cannot be described by so-called hidden variables.
Though it doesn't imply action at a distance, Aspect does imply correlation
at a distance which is perhaps just as puzzling.

We can explain correlation in two ways: either the correlated behaviors come
from objects that were prepared correlated in the past and nothing has been
done to disturb the correlation or the one object actually interacts with the
other to produce the correlation.  Neither is the case in the Aspect result.

  --Charlie