Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!crummer@AEROSPACE From: crummer%AEROSPACE@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: The Epistemological Aspect Message-ID: <12579@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 14:03:56 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12579 Posted: Tue Oct 2 14:03:56 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 05:44:07 EDT Lines: 15 From: Charlie CrummerI 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