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To: wonk who wrote (250)	3/1/1999 11:31:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 626

No. But don't believe what the words seem to say. There is no information transfer here and the actual reasons underneath the state correlation may be causally connected light speed "hidden variables". Special relativity conditions quantum mechanics to be hostage to causal relations of reality, but this conditioning comes from our macro-world observations. The quantum world is under no obligation to absolutely comply though we have never observed an inconsistency between the two. You have a set of quantum states at one spacetime point and you have another set at another spacetime point. They both have evolved from a previous joint spacetime point. You change some state in one point and another changes in the other point, but the latter change is instantaneous, so either you have teleportation causal connection or the change in quantum state was known originally to be forthcoming so that when the two points were commingled, a speed of light causal connection could effect the change in the other quantum state that then evolved and was measured later from which the teleportation inference was deduced. The latter seems too wild because it requires quantum states to remember the future, so they go with the teleportation explanation. Both are trying to preserve some kind of causality. That may not be valid. Causality itself may be occasionally chance. Causality like conservation or symmetry is just a popular starting place for contemporary reason. You have to be careful about the way scientists use the popular language. The entire EPR Paradox which rages to this day may be only a matter of defining what is meant by local and non-local. In the quantum world there is a strong argument that there is no distance, only quantum number states which occupy 0 spacetime volume. The entire unbounded universe would be infinitely small and this is all a dream. Lovely.