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Old August 15th 08, 06:31 PM posted to sci.astro,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity
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Default News: Physicists Seek Answers to Quantum Correlations

On Aug 14, 9:59 pm, "Robert Karl Stonjek"
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In another test, the scientists showed that no communication could have
occurred through a different reference frame, as might happen because of the
photonsī high speeds. According to Einsteinīs theory of relativity,
observers moving at high speeds can get different measurements of the same
event because they have different reference frames.

....

For now, Gisinīs team doesnīt have a good explanation as to how the
seemingly instant correlations happen.


A correlation is not necessarily a communication. A
communication is a type of correlation with a causal order: one event
happens because the other event is happening.
However, a correlation can be caused by a third event which causes
both correlated events. Or the correlation can happen due to
preselection. Or all sorts of things.
I sometimes read about historians arguing over the causal order
of human events. When people do the same thing at nearly the same
time, one wonders if one was copying the other. They use phrases like
"drinking from the same stream." "Drinking from the same stream" is
when two people do the same thing because they both copied it from a
third person at the same time.
Quantum communication is intellectual fascinating and may have
some very important application. However, one has to rather careful in
quantum communication about tracing a causality chain. Yes, there are
physical causes even in high level quantum mechanics. However, the
causal chain is sometime not obvious.