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Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by jobigoud on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @11:34AM (#18609799)
> Maybe there are no hidden variables, and maybe there is no communication, but these properties are simply encoded into the light particles, by the way they are created.

I believe this is exactly what "hidden variables" means. Some unknown property that would be present in both particles before we measure it and constraint the possible outcomes. This is inconsistent with experiments, it was shown there is no such properties.

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Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by kenmicklas on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @11:49AM (#18609974)
It's only inconsistent if you assume information can't travel faster than the speed of light, for which there is no basis besides gospel.
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Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by Koshkin on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @12:39PM (#18610496)
Science is no "gospel."
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Re:Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will by kenmicklas on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @01:11PM (#18610834)
How is it science? We literally have direct empirical evidence that suggests the contrary, but physicists do complicated mental gymnastics to come up with other explanations that fit their preconceived notions better.
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