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From: Robert Watkins robert.watkins@******.com
Subject: Technological Teleportation/Energy Sources
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:59:06 +1000
> Unfortunately, one cannot do this. Indeterminacy in measurement is an
> indefinite state: once one makes the measurement, the state is determinate
> (within the bounds of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle) and the photons
> are no longer phase-entangled.

Ah... That leaves me to beg the question: if measuring the particles make
them no longer phase-entangled... how do the physicists know that the change
was instantaneous? I mean, it could have happened prior to the measurement
(and thus prior to the change being applied to the first particle)?

On second thoughts, I'm not sure I want an answer... quantum effects always
make me feel dizzy...

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binds the Universe together.
Robert Watkins -- robert.watkins@******.com

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