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

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Contents
Foreword and Introduction ....................................................................................iv
I. Quantum Entanglement, Nonlocality, and EPR Experiments ............................... 1
II. The Quantum No-Signal Theorems .................................................................... 4
III. Nonlocality Versus Special Relativity? ............................................................. 5
IV. Momentum Domain Entanglement and EPR Experiments .................................. 5
V. Coherence-Entanglement Complementarity ..................................................... 10
VI. Nonlocal Communication Versus Signaling ..................................................... 11
VII. A Transactional Analysis of the Nonlocal Communication Test ...................... 13
VIII. Superluminal and Retrocausal Nonlocal Communication ............................. 17
IX. Paradoxes and Nonlocal Communication ........................................................ 18
X. Superluminal Communication without Paradoxes ............................................ 19
XI. Example: Real-Time Earth Control of Mars Rover............................................ 20
XII. Another Superluminal Possibility: Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics................. 22
XIII. Conclusion ................................................................................................... 23
Appendix: Glossary .............................................................................................. 24
Figures
Figure 1. Schematic of the 1972 Freedman-Clauser Experiment ............................ 2
Figure 2. Schematic of the 1995 Ghost Interference Experiment of the Shih
Figure 7. Slit-Imaging Coincidence-Free Version of the Ghost Interference
Group ...................................................................................................... 6
Figure 3. Ghost Interference Position Distributions at X2 ....................................... 7
Figure 4. "Unfolding" the Ghost Interference Experiment...................................... 8
Figure 5. Schematic of the 1998 Dopfer Experiment .............................................. 9
Figure 6. Thick-Source Effect ............................................................................... 10
Experiment to Demonstrate Nonlocal Communication ........................... 12
Figure 8. Transactional Interpretation Diagrams for Case 1................................. 15
Figure 9. Transactional Interpretation Diagrams for Case 2................................. 16
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