Dear Dr. Gisin,

I hope my email messages sent to you and your colleagues in the past four years have been safely received.

Regarding the question in the subject line and your recent quant-ph/0512168 v1 [Ref. 1], may I suggest the following: Correlations can indeed be explained by common causes, since what you call "quantum information" can be simultaneously everywhere, in all reference frames, like a transcendental tachyon. I call it 'potential point(s)',

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/Rosinger.html

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/Khrennikov.html#Belavkin

Please don't take this as some paternalist attitude [Ref. 1], but I believe the only way to explore quantum entanglement by *non-signaling* nonlocal correlations is with your brain(s),

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/Wechsler.html#note

If you use *any* kind of signals, it isn't secure, and cannot be secure.

Forget it.

Merry Christmas and all the best wishes for Hanukkah.

Dimi Chakalov
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[Ref. 1] Nicolas Gisin, Can relativity be considered complete?
quant-ph/0512168 v1.

Footnote 2: "This referee considered his paternalist attitude so constructive that he declared himself to me: "look how helpful I am to you" (admittedly, he was politically correct).
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"How can these two space-time locations, out there, know about what happens in each other without any sort of communication ?. I believe that this is an excellent question! I have slept with it for years [28].
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"Entanglement describes correlations without correlata [31] in a holistic view [32]. In other worlds, *a quantum correlation is not a correlation between 2 events, but a single event that manifests itself at 2 locations*.
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"Hence, let’s face the situation: Nature is able to produce nonlocal data without any sort of communication.
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"And relativity, can it be considered complete? Well, if nonlocality is really real, as widely supported by the accounts summaries in this article, then all complete theories should have a place for it. Hence, the question is: "Does relativity hold a place for non-signaling nonlocal correlations?"
 

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Subject: Re: The clever local hidden variables (if any)
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:44:56 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dimi@chakalov.net>
To: ken williams <kwilliams@rustam.uwp.edu>
CC: Larry Horwitz <larry@post.tau.ac.il>,
     Andrei Khrennikov <Andrei.Khrennikov@vxu.se>,
     Diederik Aerts <diraerts@vub.ac.be>,
     Chris Isham <c.isham@imperial.ac.uk>

Dear Ken:

Thank you for your reply.

I looked at your web site at geocities.com, and noticed that some of the links do not work (cover.JPG, firstreport1.JPG, firstreport2.JPG, etc.).

> late January.

No rush. With eleven years in academics and two in postdoctoral research, I'm sure you can swallow my web site.

> But I must warn you that unlike yourself I am not a speed-reader.

I'm not a speed-reader either, and have only glanced at your quant-ph/0512052, quant-ph/0512050, and quant-ph/0512053. RE the reality of unobserved phenomena (quant-ph/0512050, p. 37), please see the discussion of QM & STR at

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/Khrennikov.html#Belavkin

Q: Once we make the "collapse", can we trace back the instant/entry point at which the quantum beast could have entered our light cone?

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/Cramer.html

My answer is in the negative, because we cannot shrink the time-of-arrival to a "point",

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/Halliwell.html#7

By eliminating the possibilities which don't work, whatever remains, however strange it might look at first glance, should be the truth. The way I see the puzzle, the only remaining possibility for the "entry point" is the apex of the cone,

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/Horwitz.html#collapse

http://www.God-does-not-play-dice.net/Gisin.html

Hence we need quantum gravity to understand QM & STR.

Best wishes for 2006.

Dimi