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Can entanglement swapping be explained without nonlocal influences?
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In discussions of instrumentalism, questions like "What is a measurement?", "What counts as a measurement apparatus?", "Where is the...
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Can entanglement swapping be explained without nonlocal influences?
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Chapter 12 of Asher Peres's "Quantum Theory: Concepts and Methods" gives a concrete account of measurement from a modern instrumentalist...
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The question is valid under any interpretation, and the procedure for obtaining the answer is always the same. Let's see: - Bohmian...
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You don't understand that associating a quantum state with a particle is not the same as measuring it. 1. It's false that what you say...
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As I explained in post #116, this is not interpretation-dependent. As the QM textbooks I've mentioned throughout this thread (Zweibach...
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No, that's not true. No one shared any references that support the position that "A forward-in-time analysis fails to reproduce the...
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Have Ma or Zeilinger ever commented on the different interpretations of their experiments? This is not a rhetorical question. I am...
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The von Neumann projection postulate does not carve out exceptions for entangled systems. So long as the measurements are projective, an...
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A and B are entangled, and hence in an inseperable state, so a projective measurement on A projects the entire system onto a new state...
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Yes, I'm reading you. Thanks for your answer :smile: Now, I understand your objection much better. Let me address this with a simple...
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"For successive, non-destructive projective measurements with discrete results, each measurement with measuring value can be regarded as...
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No! I'm not saying that. In fact, I don't believe that these operations have a physical meaning in the sense of action-at-a-distance or...
Jul 31, 2025
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@DrChinese As I have derailed this thread enough, I will start a new thread in the next couple of days to continue the discussion...
Jul 30, 2025
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I did not make anything up. I applied basic quantum mechanics to compute probabilities for possible sequences of measurement outcomes...
Jul 30, 2025
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There is absolutely a difference between the rotation of distinguishable vs rotation of indistinguishable particles. You cannot...
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