Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Joint Configurations - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 April 2008 05:00AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 April 2008 07:58:27AM 10 points [-]

Jordan, the three answers to your question are:

1) Each photon is actually spread out in configuration space - I'll talk about this later - so an infinitesimal error in timing only creates an infinitesimal probability of both detectors going off, rather than a discontinuous jump.

2) Physicists have gotten good at doing things with bloody precise timing, so they can run experiments like this.

3) I didn't actually perform the experiment.