foodchain Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 In the context of string theory and multiple dimensions does entanglement represent any physical manifestation of such possibly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Are you asking if so-called "hidden variables" could be residing in higher dimensions? If so I believe the answer is no, based on Bell's theorem (and the Aspect experiment that verified it). Bell's theorem said that if any hidden variable exist (and the assumption I'm making here is this includes your theoretical higher dimensional hidden variables, which, if they do exist, I think is a safe assumption to make) then Bell's inequality would be correct. Whilst if QM is correct (that is to say, the universe truly is indeterministic) then Bell's inequality would be violated - as was shown to happen in Aspect's experiment (and many more that have been carried out since). Basically what I'm saying is that once Bell's theorem was verified it was proved that there are no hidden variables, full stop, i.e. including in other dimensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emcelhannon Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I believe the Aspect experiment and Bell's theorem taught us that that the disruption of entanglement is fundamentaly non-local, that even if there are hiddin variables, they too are non-local in nature. Correct me if this belongs in a different thread. The question I would like to ask is does any string theory, with it's multidimensial ideas offer any insight concerning those kinds of hidden variables? Is the consideration of an extradimensional cause resulting in instant disentanglement a property of any of the well known string theories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.C.MacSwell Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I believe the Aspect experiment and Bell's theorem taught us that that the disruption of entanglement is fundamentaly non-local, that even if there are hiddin variables, they too are non-local in nature. That was my impression as well Correct me if this belongs in a different thread. The question I would like to ask is does any string theory, with it's multidimensial ideas offer any insight concerning those kinds of hidden variables? Is the consideration of an extradimensional cause resulting in instant disentanglement a property of any of the well known string theories. Good question. Non - locality really messes with causality and time. I have no idea how string theory might solve that. Having said that, I can't make sense of it without extra dimensions either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielFB Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 if they did exist would we experience these hidden variables from a consciousness perspective? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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