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Lecture notes in computer science

Extracting Spooky-Activation-at-a-Distance from Considerations of Entanglement

Peter Bruza, Kirsty Kitto, Douglas L. Nelson, Cathy L. McEvoy

Published Jan 1, 2009• 41 citations
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10.1007/978-3-642-00834-4_8

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Quantum entanglement is popularly believed to give rise to spooky action at a distance of a kind that Einstein decisively rejected. Indeed, important recent experiments on systems assigned entangled states have been claimed to refute Einstein by exhibiting such spooky action. After reviewing two considerations in favor of this view I argue that quantum theory can be used to explain puzzling correlations correctly predicted by assignment of entangled quantum states with no such instantaneous action at a distance. We owe both considerations in favor of the view to arguments of John Bell. I present simplified forms of these arguments as well as a game that provides insight into the situation. The argument I give in response turns on a prescriptive view of quantum states that differs both from Dirac’s (as stated in Chapter 2) and Einstein’s.