Quantum Mechanics - Effect Before Cause

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Submitted by steveb3210 on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @02:28PM

steveb3210 writes "Physicists have demonstrated that making a decision about whether or not to entangle two photons can be made after you've already measured the states of the photons — can decisions made in the future really effect measurements that were made in the past?"
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Ask Albert Einstein (Score:1)

by Droog57 (2516452) writes:

Albert just about exploded his mighty brain trying to come up with a thought experiment that would refute this concept, but Niels Bohr ended up winning that argument. File this under "strange but true".
Effect before cause (Score:1)

by LeadSongDog (1120683) writes:

... all depends on your definition of "before", doesn't it!

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