This. Is. BEAUTIFUL!

[kickaha]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/292378_timeguy15.html

Now that's elegant science. Create one pair of entangled photons, send #1 immediately to a particle/wave detector, send #2 through a 50ms delay to a second detector that can force the state to be particle or wave, and see if you can also force #1 to be one or the other... 50ms before you alter its twin.

Elegant. Simple. Outstanding.

Comments

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Shhhh, you'll scare the laypeople.

Yeah, I noticed that too - I suspect there was a detail that the interviewer missed in translation. Still, assume that the detector is for something as 'simple' as spin up/down, and you can alter Brain into one or the other. If you can demonstrate that you can control Pinky via Brain, then... well, it'd be neat. :)

[actsofcreation.livejournal.com]

Surely naming photons after beloved cartoon characters mitigated the 'scare the laypeople' effect :)

Being photons, spin is clearly out... one might in principle use polarization...

Frankly though, controlling Pinky via Brain would be kind of scary... causality makes the trains run on time...

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

LOL You're right, spin was was a bad example. :) (Gawd, it's been a while.)

And I think it'd be a *beautiful* thing if it were proven that retrocausality existed... and then we could find absolutely no practical use for it. My inner physicist would siiiiiiiiiiing...