Measurement of Entangled Particles causes up or down spin?

[CarawayBlossom]

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Are we assuming that our measurement of entangled particles is what causes them to be a particular spin? Wouldn't it be the the thing that caused what we call entanglement rather then the measuring of them?

In reading around, it seems that in the case of entangled particles, it is the measurement of one of the particles that causes the other one to be it's opposite spin and that there's some means of info transfer going on caused by the measurement. I'm not understanding why it would not be that the opposite spin is a property of, that which causes entangled states, the instance that that mechanic happened, rather then the measuring being the thing that causes the other to be the opposite spin.

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[DrChinese]

Summary:: Are we assuming that our measurement of entangled particles is what causes them to be a particular spin? Wouldn't it be the the thing that caused what we call entanglement rather then the measuring of them?

In reading around, it seems that in the case of entangled particles, it is the measurement of one of the particles that causes the other one to be it's opposite spin and that there's some means of info transfer going on caused by the measurement. I'm not understanding why it would not be that the opposite spin is a property of, that which causes entangled states, the instance that that mechanic happened, rather then the measuring being the thing that causes the other to be the opposite spin.

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Are you familiar with Bell’s Theorem? Without that, you are missing the next key ingredient in the puzzle of the EPR paradox.

 

[PeroK]

Summary:: Are we assuming that our measurement of entangled particles is what causes them to be a particular spin? Wouldn't it be the the thing that caused what we call entanglement rather then the measuring of them?

In reading around, it seems that in the case of entangled particles, it is the measurement of one of the particles that causes the other one to be it's opposite spin and that there's some means of info transfer going on caused by the measurement. I'm not understanding why it would not be that the opposite spin is a property of, that which causes entangled states, the instance that that mechanic happened, rather then the measuring being the thing that causes the other to be the opposite spin.

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What you are asking is whether the two particles have internal (so-called "hidden") variables that are preset with the outcomes of all spin measurements that may be made on them? This was the hypothesis of the EPR paper.

Actually, QM and its probabilities based on amplitudes predicts different results from any local hidden-variables theory. This was first identified by John Bell (see Bell's Theorem) and has subsequently been tested. The results of these experiments show that the particles cannot have preset local hidden-variables.

Note that QM does not propose any information transfer between the particles. All QM says is that the results of experiments are consistent with the original entangled state, hence measurements of spin on the particles are correlated.

 

[vanhees71]

That's the important point: Though the spin of the single particles in the entangled state are completely indetermined they are highly correlated, and this correlation is due to the preparation of the particles in this entangled state and not due to the measurement of the spin of one particle, for which you get a random outcome with probabilities given by Born's rule, but what's then also determined is also the spin state of the other particle due to the correlation as described by the prepared entangled state.