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by gill1109 » Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:44 pm
Joy Christian wrote:gill1109 wrote:The reason I can generously go to 0.2 rather than the symmetric cut-off 0.1 is because all chance has been totally eradicated. My "spread-sheet argument" (the math core of CHSH) says that -E (0, 45) + E(0, 135) - E(90, 45) - E(90, 135) is less than or equal to 2. No probability. This is certain.And yet Nature says -E (0, 45) + E(0, 135) - E(90, 45) - E(90, 135) = 2.828427125...And that is what we shall observe.
gill1109 wrote:The reason I can generously go to 0.2 rather than the symmetric cut-off 0.1 is because all chance has been totally eradicated. My "spread-sheet argument" (the math core of CHSH) says that -E (0, 45) + E(0, 135) - E(90, 45) - E(90, 135) is less than or equal to 2. No probability. This is certain.
by Joy Christian » Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:13 pm
by gill1109 » Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:01 pm
by Ben6993 » Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:53 pm
by gill1109 » Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:48 am
Ben6993 wrote:If I read it correctly, Joy's recent post on FQXi is a stunner. He doesn't need your, nor anybody's, computer programs. He probably doesn't even need a computer, spreadsheet or calculator. He just needs the back of an envelope to record the four numbers in categories 00, 01, 10 and 11. Just to be calculated for one pair of a and b values. He is probably correct!
by gill1109 » Mon Apr 21, 2014 1:40 pm
by Ben6993 » Mon Apr 21, 2014 10:32 am
by Ben6993 » Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:12 am
by gill1109 » Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:42 am
Ben6993 wrote: Someone will have estimated that a man in, say the 1700s, usually gets married at age 25 and so will invent a birth record dated 25 years before the marriage and place that on the IGI site. Is that fake birth record not a "wax apple"? A naive user of the site could take the supposed birth record as genuine.
by Ben6993 » Tue Apr 15, 2014 2:45 am
"A counterfactual apple does not exist in the real world. You can't eat it. But if you imagined counterfactually eating it you could imagine it would be delicious."
by gill1109 » Tue Apr 15, 2014 2:00 am
Ben6993 wrote:I assumed that no one made a direct experimental measurement of a counterfactual.
Ben6993 wrote:The population and sample are different but is not the A measurement based on "the same thing" in each case.
Ben6993 wrote:That is a very unkind nom-de-plume to use in this thread.
Ben6993 wrote:I am not too hot on the theory, but in my opinion a 2pi rotation does not change a macroscopic apple into a macroscopic pear. But a 2pi rotation does change the measured outcome of the spin in some way for an electron, as a complete cycle is 4pi. In my own model, the electron does not physically change throughout the 4pi cycle. Ie its chirality is unchanged, but its measured spin can vary throughout the cycle.
Ben6993 wrote:Eating a counterfactual one (a wax apple?) might give you indigestion!
Ben6993 wrote:I very much doubt that Michel will want secretly to add in counterfactual data via program coding. You would seem to be the most likely suspect for that! I trust you ... but no doubt the code will be well checked.
by Ben6993 » Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:17 am
Richard wrote: " No one "uses" counterfactual data in an experiment! There is no counterfactual data observed in an experiment!"
Richard wrote: "The symbols "A" and "B" are names of something completely different in my expression "ave(AB)" from what I want them to refer to in my expression "E(AB)". Taking a mean value means something completely different in the two contexts. I proposed to distinguish them notationally. The operations "ave" and "E" are two completely different things.""The interminable discussions going on here have a simple root cause: confusion about notation. "Notation" is about what symbols are supposed to denote. "A" in the statement and proof of the CHSH inequality is not "A" in an experimenter's report of a CHSH experiment. ""I propose from now on to rigorously distinguish the operation of taking a population expectation value in theory, from the operation of taking an average of values observed in an experiment.""One must distinguish apples from pears."
Richard wrote: "One may *compare* the average weight of 10 apples with the average weight of 15 pears. And one may compare both samples' averages with the mean weights of apples and pears and indeed oranges too in any crazy theory."
Richard wrote: "According to Gill Pagan's S^11 based theory, every pear is actually an apple and we just need to do a counterfactual rotation through 2pi to convert an apple into a pear. Thus every apple actually has two weights: its weight as an apple and its weight as a pear. Moreover, because of the Hopf fibration, the pear weights of both apples and pears are sqrt 2 times their apple weights. Hence according to this theory, the population mean weight of pears is sqrt 2 times the population mean weight of apples."
Richard wrote: "One could now test this theory by taking a sample of 100 apples and another sample of 100 pears (sorry, 98, I ate two of them)."
Richard wrote:"PS I said: there is no counterfactual data in an experiment. I referred here to a "real" (quantum optics lab) CHSH exoeriment. In a computer simulation, or in Joy's exploding balls experiment, it does exist, or at least, it can be made without changing the rest of the data!""For instance, Michel could add some statements writing counterfactual data to a separate computer file, without changing anything else. Whether or not one or two extra lines of code are actually in the program or not, one may imagine that they are there, and one may carry out some reasoning or analysis involving them. By consideration of what would have been in the extra, "secret", output file, one can deduce something about the not-hidden output of the program ... "
by gill1109 » Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:54 pm
by Ben6993 » Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:49 pm
Richard wrote: "Ben you are confused. In one run (one pair of particles) of a CHSH experiment only one of A and A' is observed, only one of B and B'. The other two are counterfactual. You don't observe them. And it is only under a local hidden variables theory, that they can be said to 'exist'. "
Richard wrote: "You said the "independence case" was that the quadruple (A, A', B and B') took on any of 16 possible combinations of values. But this is already counterfactual. Factually, only one of A and A' exists, and only one of B and B' exists."
Richard wrote: "Then you talked about the "counterfactual case" and said that A would equal -A' and B would equal -B'. But we are talking about spin half particles and there is no deterministic relation between any of the pairs which you can form (under counterfactual definiteness). There is no pair of angles differing by 0 or by 180 degrees."
Richard wrote: "However your observation that all 16 combinations in what you incorrectly called the "independence case" were either equal to -2 or +2. This means that if you would repeat a calculation of AB - AB' + A'B + A'B' (in the counterfactual world which only exists if we believe in local hidden variables) many many times, independently, and go to the infinite N limit, you would (in the limit) find the value of E(AB - AB' + A'B + A'B') where E stands for expectation value. So this limit has to lie between -2 and +2. Read a book about probability theory if you don't know what all this means."
Richard wrote: "Putting everything together, we expect that ave(AB) - ave(AB') +ave(A'B) +ave(A'B') lies within +/- a few multiples of 1/sqrt N away from E(AB) - E(AB') + E(A'B) + E(A'B'), with large probability.So that's the rational of a CHSH experiment. Choose N large enough that 1/sqrt N is of order of size, say, 0.01."
by gill1109 » Mon Apr 14, 2014 5:41 am
minkwe wrote:Richard, have you withdrawn your papers which claim on the basis of alleged violations of the CHSH by experiments and QM that "realism is untenable"?
by minkwe » Mon Apr 14, 2014 5:23 am
gill1109 wrote:To Michel: I cannot see your posts anymore.
gill1109 wrote:"No upper bound can ever be violated even by experimental error"True ... but irrelevant.
by gill1109 » Mon Apr 14, 2014 12:59 am
by minkwe » Sun Apr 13, 2014 1:19 pm
gill1109 wrote:The problem with Michel's reasoning is that he does not realize the difference between a theoretical prediction of an expectation value (population or ensemble mean) and a sample average. I get the impression he has no idea what is an error bar or standard error. What is a p-value. Having no comprehension at all of the difference between experiment and theory, makes it rather difficult to discuss said difference.
To Michel: I cannot see your posts anymore.
by gill1109 » Sun Apr 13, 2014 12:36 pm
by minkwe » Sun Apr 13, 2014 6:19 am
gill1109 wrote:Still not getting it, Michel?
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