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Comment author: Nisan 27 March 2014 09:29:47PM 0 points [-]

If Bob knows that the particle becomes entangled with him, then he still makes the same predictions.

Ok, that's surprising. Here's why I thought otherwise: From Bob's perspective, a particle is prepared in a superposition of states B and C. Then Bob observes or becomes entangled with the particle, thus collapsing its state. Then the super-duper quantum erasure is performed, which preserves the state of the particle. Then the particle strikes the second half-silvered mirror. A collapse interpretation tells Bob to expect two outcomes with equal probability. Is this, then, an experiment where a collapse interpretation and a many-worlds interpretation give different predictions?

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 28 March 2014 09:00:04AM 1 point [-]

The collapse interpretation predicts that you can't do the super-duper quantum erasure. Once the collapse has occurred the wavefunction can't uncollapse.