lew (05/10/82)
Please, no more pleas for authority to rescue us from our confusion! If you want to believe an authority join a church. Anyway, there are plenty of authorities in print. Speaking of which, Feynman in "The Theory of Fundamental Processes" Chapter 18, verifies Don Chan's contention that an electron can be observed at two space-time points with space-like separation. My confusion arose from Don's attempt to explain this using Schroedinger's wave mechanics ( I still say many of Don's statements are in error: For example, " ...the term 'simultaneous' is meaningless according to relativity." It's not meaningless, only relative; events with a space-like separation are always simultaneous in some frame.) As to my statement about anti-correlation, I was speaking of the scalar measurement of position: here implies not there, and conversely. In Schr's wave mechanics the measurement permanently 'reduces' the wave function, which time evolves from this new initial state. If the point of all this is to learn something, I'm succeeding! Lew Mammel, Jr. - BTL Indian Hill