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   Sylvia Else to richalivingston@gmail.com   
   Re: A Hypothesis concerning Bell's Inequ   
   04 Mar 18 10:51:21   
   
   From: sylvia@not.at.this.address   
      
   On 3/03/2018 7:47 PM, richalivingston@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   > As you clearly understand, relativity forbids events that have spacelike   
   > separation to influence each other.  My point is that the common   
   > emission event is always on or inside the past light cone of both   
   > detection events.  One way to understand these entanglement experiments   
   > is to consider that at the moment of emission that the particle already   
   > "knows" where it will be detected (again putting it in anthropomorphic   
   > terms).  I don't believe this is a generally accepted idea, and as   
   > T. Roberts pointed out is more difficult to argue for massive particles.   
      
   It would have to know not just where, but what was measured. Since   
   experiments have been done where the decision about what to measure is   
   made at random between the emission of the particle and its detection,   
   the only way the particle could know would be to see the future.   
      
   Sylvia.   
      
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