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I don't understand what bells inequality is refuting. Why does local realism predict a different outcome? The probability for a photon to pass through a polarizer is the Cos of the angle between it and the polarizer. So if you put a source of linearly polarized photons through a polarizer oriented at 45° to the axis of polarization and .707 of them go through it.
If you set up bells experiment then you are making a cut on a statistical sample of photons which average out to be polarized in the direction of polarizer A and asking how many identical ones make it through polarizer B and its .707. Why is this surprising? How could it be any different? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! I really can't see any reason anyone comes to the conclusion that there is something superluminal going on, especially since the correlation between A and B is not known until Alice walks over to where Bob is and they compare notes.
About your paper, it doesn't seem to matter that E is updated in the iteration of the loop that comes before its comparison with A and B. So how does this make a comment on the speed of information travel? The simulation could be interpreted as a model of two detectors, A and B, at the same location as past E.
I recreated your code in LabVIEW and I get .678 for the correlation.
[STRIKE]Is this
emmitt += (2 * rand.Next(2) - 1) * Math.PI / 4;
the same as
emmitt += (rand.Next(4) - 1) * Math.PI / 4;
which would tend to increase emmitt instead of maintaining equal probability to be negative?[/STRIKE]
This seems like its measuring the probability of your random number generator to generate numbers within a certain range.
Edit: Oh I see rand.Next(2) returns an integer, I get .707 now
If you set up bells experiment then you are making a cut on a statistical sample of photons which average out to be polarized in the direction of polarizer A and asking how many identical ones make it through polarizer B and its .707. Why is this surprising? How could it be any different? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! I really can't see any reason anyone comes to the conclusion that there is something superluminal going on, especially since the correlation between A and B is not known until Alice walks over to where Bob is and they compare notes.
About your paper, it doesn't seem to matter that E is updated in the iteration of the loop that comes before its comparison with A and B. So how does this make a comment on the speed of information travel? The simulation could be interpreted as a model of two detectors, A and B, at the same location as past E.
I recreated your code in LabVIEW and I get .678 for the correlation.
[STRIKE]Is this
emmitt += (2 * rand.Next(2) - 1) * Math.PI / 4;
the same as
emmitt += (rand.Next(4) - 1) * Math.PI / 4;
which would tend to increase emmitt instead of maintaining equal probability to be negative?[/STRIKE]
This seems like its measuring the probability of your random number generator to generate numbers within a certain range.
Edit: Oh I see rand.Next(2) returns an integer, I get .707 now
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