by gill1109 » Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:49 am
FrediFizzx wrote:Go back and read the whole thread then you will hopefully understand what I am asking about. I'm not going to keep repeating myself like you do.
I did read the whole thread, and I don't understand what you are asking about. Too bad then.
Off topic but related: John Reed is going to make a Mathematica version of the bet resolution script which I wrote. I hope you'll be interested to test it. It needs to be agreed on by Joy's supporters.
I hope it is becoming clear that the whole CHSH inequality business is a bit of a red herring.
We have a theory which says rho(0, 45) = rho(90, 45) = rho(90, 135) = - 0.7, and rho(0, 135) = + 0.7.
We have a theory which says rho(0, 45) = rho(90, 45) = rho(90, 135) = - 0.5, and rho(0, 135) = + 0.5.
"rho" refers to ensemble averages or population means, and are derived on the basis of different mathematical frameworks.
We have experiments in which we can calculate E(0, 45), E(90, 45), E(90, 135) , and E(0, 135) as averages of products of finitely many observed values of binary measurement outcomes, when the experimenters have imposed some different measurement settings on the measurement devices. Usually the four correlations are of course calculated on four different subsets of runs of the experiment, since the measurement devices do not allow to measure according to two settings at the same time. Those four sample averages can in principle take any value between - 1 and + 1, independently on one another, so the only thing one can say for certain is that - E(0, 45) + E(0, 135) - E(90, 45) - E(90, 135) lies between - 4 and + 4.
Joy's proposed experiment is rather remarkable in that it does allow observation of the spin in different directions at the same time. After all, he instructs the experimenter to *measure* u and then to *calculate* A(a) = sign( a . u) and B(b) = sign( b . -u ).
A computer simulation of a LHV model is similar to Joy's experiment in that in the code, a value of lambda is created and a value of A (and of B) is calculated, for particular values of settings a and b. Whether or not one calculates and prints or saves the values of A and B for other values of a and of b, they still do "exist" in a mathematical sense. You may recall how Michel got very angry when I proposed to add some lines to his code doing some different things with the "hidden variables" than he had already written in his code. Because they were "hidden" we were not supposed to look at them. Well, the word "hidden" simply means that in the real world we do not get to see them directly, but just because some physical variable is hidden doesn't mean that we are forbidden to think about it. Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen started this whole thing by thinking about counterfactual outcomes of not performed measurements, and using their thought experiment to infer the existence of hidden variables, hence to logically prove the incompleteness of quantum mechanics - those hidden variables really did exist hence it was the task of the physicist to build models which described them. Which is actually what Joy Christian has done, of course.
[quote="FrediFizzx"]
Go back and read the whole thread then you will hopefully understand what I am asking about. I'm not going to keep repeating myself like you do.[/quote]
I did read the whole thread, and I don't understand what you are asking about. Too bad then.
Off topic but related: John Reed is going to make a Mathematica version of the bet resolution script which I wrote. I hope you'll be interested to test it. It needs to be agreed on by Joy's supporters.
I hope it is becoming clear that the whole CHSH inequality business is a bit of a red herring.
We have a theory which says rho(0, 45) = rho(90, 45) = rho(90, 135) = - 0.7, and rho(0, 135) = + 0.7.
We have a theory which says rho(0, 45) = rho(90, 45) = rho(90, 135) = - 0.5, and rho(0, 135) = + 0.5.
"rho" refers to ensemble averages or population means, and are derived on the basis of different mathematical frameworks.
We have experiments in which we can calculate E(0, 45), E(90, 45), E(90, 135) , and E(0, 135) as averages of products of finitely many observed values of binary measurement outcomes, when the experimenters have imposed some different measurement settings on the measurement devices. Usually the four correlations are of course calculated on four different subsets of runs of the experiment, since the measurement devices do not allow to measure according to two settings at the same time. Those four sample averages can in principle take any value between - 1 and + 1, independently on one another, so the only thing one can say for certain is that - E(0, 45) + E(0, 135) - E(90, 45) - E(90, 135) lies between - 4 and + 4.
Joy's proposed experiment is rather remarkable in that it does allow observation of the spin in different directions at the same time. After all, he instructs the experimenter to *measure* u and then to *calculate* A(a) = sign( a . u) and B(b) = sign( b . -u ).
A computer simulation of a LHV model is similar to Joy's experiment in that in the code, a value of lambda is created and a value of A (and of B) is calculated, for particular values of settings a and b. Whether or not one calculates and prints or saves the values of A and B for other values of a and of b, they still do "exist" in a mathematical sense. You may recall how Michel got very angry when I proposed to add some lines to his code doing some different things with the "hidden variables" than he had already written in his code. Because they were "hidden" we were not supposed to look at them. Well, the word "hidden" simply means that in the real world we do not get to see them directly, but just because some physical variable is hidden doesn't mean that we are forbidden to think about it. Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen started this whole thing by thinking about counterfactual outcomes of not performed measurements, and using their thought experiment to infer the existence of hidden variables, hence to logically prove the incompleteness of quantum mechanics - those hidden variables really did exist hence it was the task of the physicist to build models which described them. Which is actually what Joy Christian has done, of course.