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jeremyfiennes
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I'm reading Adam Becker's QM book "What is Real?" At one point he says:
"The single wave function shared by the two entangled photons guarantees that they will always behave in the same manner when encountering two polarizers with parallel axes. It does not specify what they will do. But merely that both will always do the same thing."
Is this correct? My understanding is the common wave function determines that the probability of a photon either passing or being blocked by its polarizing filter is the same for each. But this being a probabilistic relation, not necessarily that the outcomes will always be identical.
"The single wave function shared by the two entangled photons guarantees that they will always behave in the same manner when encountering two polarizers with parallel axes. It does not specify what they will do. But merely that both will always do the same thing."
Is this correct? My understanding is the common wave function determines that the probability of a photon either passing or being blocked by its polarizing filter is the same for each. But this being a probabilistic relation, not necessarily that the outcomes will always be identical.