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Offline Wain

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Re: teleportation
« on: January 23, 2008, 09:50:45 AM »
While I suppose that could be distinctly possible, in the end it would be some property we do not yet understand how to observe, which in turn makes the comment about the two photons being indistinguishable still correct.  

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Re: teleportation
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2008, 03:30:47 AM »
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I'm no physicist, but doesn't the uncertainty principle sort of rule out ever knowing whether two particles are identical?


If they had the same location and momentum wouldn't there only be one particle?  I don't think the uncertainty principle is going to get in the way here.  

I would assume that location is not considered to have to be the same for two distinct particles in order to consider them "identical", just everything else (spin, energy level, momentum, etc...).
 
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