On the Computer Simulation of the EPR—Bohm Experiment

Abstract

We argue that supraluminal correlation without supraluminal signaling is a necessary consequence of any finite and discrete model for physics. Every day, the commercial and military practice of using encrypted communication based on correlated, pseudo-random signals illustrates this possibility. All that is needed are two levels of computational complexity which preclude using a smaller system to detect departures from “randomness” in the larger system. Hence, the experimental realizations of the EPR—Bohm experiment leave open the question of whether the world of experience is “random” or pseudo-random. The latter possibility could be demonstrated experimentally if a complexity parameter related to the arm length and switching time in an Aspect-type realization of the EPR-Bohm experiment is sufficiently small compared to the number of reliable total counts which can be obtained in practice.

Work supported by the Department of Energy, contract DE-AC03-76SF00515.