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I've been trying to work out exactly what part of the experiment I'm fundamentally not getting.
The experiment basically says that no information is being sent back in time because the coincidence counters are needed to isolate the signal photons and expose the interference pattern.
But the fact remains that if you expose the interference pattern then that right there is evidence that the photons interfered before they knew they were going to get recorded.
in other words, if I throw a dice and get 3 and then discover a note in my pocket that says you've thrown 3, then that means something already knew that was going to happen. There is no information being sent because i already knew i had thrown 3 when i read the note but still, the note needs to be explained. I don't see why the concept of nonlocality would explain this.
I know the analogy is very bad but I use it to point out that i understand the impossiblity of sending information back in time with the dcqe experiment but there is still this "note" that is evidence of something strange happening in time.
The experiment basically says that no information is being sent back in time because the coincidence counters are needed to isolate the signal photons and expose the interference pattern.
But the fact remains that if you expose the interference pattern then that right there is evidence that the photons interfered before they knew they were going to get recorded.
in other words, if I throw a dice and get 3 and then discover a note in my pocket that says you've thrown 3, then that means something already knew that was going to happen. There is no information being sent because i already knew i had thrown 3 when i read the note but still, the note needs to be explained. I don't see why the concept of nonlocality would explain this.
I know the analogy is very bad but I use it to point out that i understand the impossiblity of sending information back in time with the dcqe experiment but there is still this "note" that is evidence of something strange happening in time.