AAWSAP DIRD, The Space Communication Implications of Quantum Entanglement and Nonlocality, March 2010

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Figure 9. Transactional Interpretation Diagrams for Case 2, The left-going offer waves pass through both
slits of S2, where the waves are combined and detected by the center detector (circled). The momentum-entangled
right-going offer waves pass through the both slits of S1, which are the optical images of S2, and interfere at the
camera. Confirmation waves return, and the two-slit transaction forms.
Therefore, from the point of view of the transactional interpretation of quantum
mechanics (Reference 19), the nonlocal connection between detection events at the two
ends of the experiment arises because the detection transactions for the two entangled
photons must share a "two-way handshake" at the nonlinear crystal, a condition that
can be realized only when the summed vector momenta of the two photons equals that
of the pump-laser photon that created them. This view explains Dopfer's observations
(Reference 19) and indicates that, in the absence of overwhelming noise or restrictions
imposed by coherence/entanglement complementarity, no coincidence should be
required between the two detectors in the experiment to observe that change in the
pattern observed at D1 when detector D2 is moved. This remains true in the
configurations discussed below, when slit S2 is lengthened with many kilometers of
fiber-optic light transmission cable to enable superluminal and retrocausa l signal
transmission. In other words, analysis of the nonlocal communication test system with
the transactional interpretation reveals no "show-stopper" aspects that would prevent
superluminal and retro-causa l signal transmission. The transactional interpretation is
neutral on whether such signals are possible.
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