Alex,

Your situation assumes that there are no built-in correlations that exist prior to digging the hole. If I flip a coin and the odds are 50/50 that it will flip 'heads' is easily distorted if I was referring to an event that already took place and the coin flip was recorded. Probability is *relative* to the human knowledge of the event.

What looks like superluminal communication isn't necessarily. Perhaps we might find upon further investigation that whoever buried the coin obeyed certain rules. For example, if you bury a coin on Earth in the center of the largest land crater on Earth then you must bury a coin on Mars exactly the same (exact center of the largest crater).

You can't always assume superluminal travel. If we did, then the magician would surely have us all believing in magical powers.

Warm regards, Harv

• No prior knowledge about coin position exists. - alexander - October 11, 2001 - 19:57 UTC
  • Not necessarily - harvey1 - October 11, 2001 - 22:08 UTC
    • Well, here, I believe we have entanglement, not superluminality. - alexander - October 11, 2001 - 23:04 UTC
    • Harvey, what is CH ? (nt) - alexander - October 11, 2001 - 23:05 UTC
      • consistent histories - harvey1 - October 12, 2001 - 03:03 UTC
• Harv, are you insinuating the so-called "hidden varibale"? - smartguy - October 11, 2001 - 20:01 UTC
  • No - harvey1 - October 11, 2001 - 20:43 UTC