Schedule of Presentations: Friday Dec 3: Yan Wang, Tao Chu, Subramanya Sadasiva, Sourabh Dongaonkar Monday, Dec 6: Shu-hao Yeh, Ravi Vedula, Paul West, Mark Catalfano Wednesday, Dec 8: Liang Guo, Koushik Viswanathan, Jason Newman, Huikan Liu Friday, Dec 10: Bryan Sims, Ben Nebgen, Ankit Jain, Aaron Lentner 0

Do experimental results on quantum entanglement show that information can travel faster than the speed of light? (You can put the actual title of your paper here, if it is different from the above.) Give your name here. Optional: your home department or other affiliation 1

Preface: 1. EPR (1935) demonstrated a conflict between Quantum Mechanics and their definition of a “complete” physical theory. 2. Bell showed that experiments on entangled systems can distinguish between the (EPR) hidden variable model and Quantum Mechanics. 3. Experiments prove the hidden variable model is wrong, and that the non-local nature of QM is right. 4. Later experiments show that the apparent speed of the collapse of the wave function must be much greater than the speed of light. 2

On this one slide, explain exactly how it now appears that QM is in conflict with Special Relativity, which decrees that no energy can be transmitted faster than the speed of light. 3

On this one slide, provide your most convincing argument for resolving this apparent conflict. Do not just state that no “useful” information is transmitted, or that the information is not “real” information, or that it is just “ethereal,” etc. If you make any such claim, PROVE IT! You will be judged on how convincing your argument is. 4

(Summarize your conclusions here.) The End Any Questions? 5