Spooky action at a distance also acts in the past
Year: 2021
Type: preprint
Abstract: The term `spooky action at a distance' was coined by A. Einstein to show inconsistency of quantum mechanics with the principle of locality and reality. However, quantum mechanics is nonlocal and violates Bell's inequality. A quantum state measurement of a particle of an entangled pair collapses the total quantum state and the quantum state of the distant particle is immediately determined without making any interaction with it. The isolated collapsed quantum state of both particles remains unentangled in the future. An inertial frame of reference moving with a relativistic speed perceives these events differently is space and time and their simultaneity is relative. In this paper, it is shown that the quantum state collapse happens not only in the present but it also happens in the past of the collapse event.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Mandip Singh
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3198493857