The Gedanken Experimenter

Detlef Dürr, Dustin Lazarovici

Luiz Carlos Ryff

Padmanabhan Murali

Experimental realization of Gedanken experiments on Quantum Mechanics continue to suggest inferences of action at a distance, action into the future or past as reported in Delayed choice Quantum entanglement experiments recently by Ma et al (2012). Is it possible to read through this and investigate through simple logic and experiments whether control of the past or future is possible? A set of experiments are suggested here to do the same whose results may be interesting. Gedanken experiments on Quantum Mechanics principles Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (Einstein et al, 1935) were the first to suggest a Gedanken experiment which would suggest instant communication over a distance between particles which was against the principle of Special

Sven Kochmann

J. E. F. Araújo, João L. Cordovil, Croca +1 more

Abstract: Recently the experimental group of A. Aspect published a very interesting experimental realization of the well known Wheeler’s delayed-choice Gedanken Experiment. In the paper the authors refer to the usual, non causal linear explanation of the experiment. In the present work we show how it is possible, and furthermore desirable, to explain the same experiment in terms of the modern local causal and nonlinear quantum theory, inspired in the work of the great physicist Louis de Broglie. In this way we are able to get rid of the mysteries and of the weird features of the orthodox interpretation, like retractions in time, and therefore recover causality and rationality once more.

Wilhelm Schmid