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Author’s note: The following two chapters present a somewhat detailed examination
of quantum mechanical interpretations and paradoxes that have resulted
from lack of understanding of mind processes. They were written for those with a
knowledge of or curiosity about quantum paradox. The casual reader is invited to
skip to Chapter 18.
We now know Einstein was wrong in the extent of his trust in classical
physics to explain certain phenomena. The probability rules of the wave
equation of which Einstein was skeptical do indeed help us map quantum
processes. The EPR Paradox was formulated into a testable statistical theorem
called Bell’s Inequality in 1964, but its results were not demonstrated
by decisive experimental evidence until 1982. A physicist at the University
of Paris by the name of Alain Aspect led a team that demonstrated that the
particles (Princeton and Bangkok) faithfully maintained the proper correlation
when the wave function was collapsed by independent measurements.
Aspect used the polarization of photons instead of protons, but the
results would turn out the same.
The popular interpretation of their findings is that the relativistic speed
of light is not violated; that is, information is not transferred from one
particle to the other, but rather the wave aspects of the particles are in
some way interconnected nonlocally, and “resonate” so as to maintain the
correlation of their characteristics. They do not behave as particles at all,
but rather as fields, filling all space, orchestrated and mediated in their
properties by a mechanism not yet understood. Quantum theory does not
and perhaps cannot, in its current form, address how the properties are
orchestrated and mediated nonlocally to maintain their correlation. Additional
theory is needed to understand nonlocality. But one alternative
explanation, that information is transmitted faster than the speed of light
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