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Like Alain Aspect's third experiment, where testing Bell's Inequalities confirmed quantum theory, but thereby also presupposed action at a distance.
You only need to pressupose action at a distance if you accept Einstein's idea of elements of reality. But the fact is that apart from the Bell Inequalities (which show that QM is incompatible with local realism) there are other predictions of Quantum Mechanics such as the Hardy and the  Kochen-Specker theorems which show that Einsteinian hidden variables not only need to be nonlocal but also contextual and non-counterfactual. To be honest, I prefer to say that Einstein's hidden variables don't exist. I have written about this before: The world is weirder than you ever thought on May 29th, 2006.

Maybe I should write something about what Wheeler's alternate universes (are you talking about the misnamed "Many Worlds Interepretation" of QM by Everett, who gave it the more sensible name of "Relative State Interpretation"?) are not.

Einstein's philosophical prejudice that God doesn't play dice has been very fruitful by stimulating research into the foundations of Quantum Mechanics but, for my money, it has ultimately been shown to be wrong.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Dec 30th, 2007 at 07:35:03 PM EST
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