From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 00:05:19 MDT
John Clark writes
> "Ross A. Finlayson" <extropy@apexinternetsoftware.com>
>
> >It seems more like we each observed a photon from the
> >original source. Those twos photon have the same
> >propensity to pass through a polarized
> >lens at a given angle. If we have the lenses at the same
> >angle, the photon passes through both or neither.
>
> There are an infinite number of angles I could set my filter at, but
> whatever one I chose your photon 2 million light years away will instantly
> be polarized at that angle if my photon makes it through or be polarized
> exactly 90 degrees off if it does not. That's spooky but true.
Instantly? In whose frame of reference? If one polarizer is
moving relative to the other, then the Special Theory kicks in
and it's impossible to say "instantly". I'm still working on
a similar thread, but this is my take, which I might hope
makes MWI more attractive.
I guess that this aspect of the photon only *appears* to be
like that much later on, when all the data has been brought
to one point and compared.
Lee
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