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Do the excited states last long enough to be released by the I1 photons? In any case something is inverted here. When we have a photon in I1 we should NOT have a down conversion event in NL2. But if I1 photons are stimulating the decay of the excited states then an I1 photon means we DO have a...

You are still talking as if there were two downconversion events at different depths and so out of phase with each other. There was only one event and it by definition can't be out of phase with itself. Ok let's talk about a single downconverter and the effect it has on the phase of a photon...

I think we have major confusion here. First you only have one downconversion event. It is in superposition of haveing happened in NL1 and NL2. Now all you have to do is send I1 to NL2 with the exact same beam length as V2 to NL2 You have the ghost of a photon in V2 and a ghost of a photon...

Ok let's handel this problem first. What you say here does not fit my limited understanding of how down converters work. Consider a laser, you have an excited gas to which you introduce a photon. This photon excites the emmision of more photons. So far we just have an expensive monochrome...

There are many alternate explanations for quantum phenomena but none of them are less weird. Worse, you really can't tell them apart because for the most part they all give the same predictions.

Sorry, mostly over my head. I think I get the gest of it. But this stuff is just a hobby for me and I have always had trouble with the notation used by the people who know what they are talking about. Still, I'm going to disagree with you. First, I have real problems believeing in your phase...

Ok this is mostly over my head. I don't really understand what a density matrix is. But from what very little grasp I have of it I'm suprised its applicable here. I'm stuck trying to visualize the unitary evolution of a single photon as it goes through the experiment. From this perspective if...

Why? Is it violating some principle of QM? Ok what if we change the experiment a little. What if we made the thing symmetric across V1 and V2 so that we are generating one interference pattern with S1 and S2 and another interference pattern with I1 and I2. This should be possible as long as...

Thanks dude!

I don't know much about phase locking so forgive what may be a dumb question. Turn down the intensity on the thing so you only have one photon per year or so. Now when you have a photon in i1 you clearly do not have one in v2 and will not have one for a year or so. How can a photon in i1...

The blasted links don't work for me. 404 error.

I may be wrong but I think the idea is to assume there is a FTL signal causeing the correlation. Then you look at the timeing of the measurements and calculate how fast such a signal would have to be to cause the correlation. It does not change the fact that you still have to look at both ends...

I don't see this as a problem. You can reverse the measurement only because the results of the measurement never interacted with the universe at large. You don't get decoherence until the measurement interacts with you and the rest of the universe. You don't get wave collapse until you get...

But why is this anything more than another inappropriate "why?" question? For example you could have asked Newton "why" F=M1XM2/R^2. And I think Newton did obsses over philosophical issues with action at a distance. But science does not answer "why?" questions very well. It goes for "what?"...

Decoherence solves all the problems I can see. So don't leave me hanging. What problems does it not solve? I looked at your journal and noticed you claim a problem with MWI when the probabilities are not equal to 0.5. But I'm not a physicist and have problems following why. could you make...