Bill Frist
POSTED: 4:27 pm EST November 10, 2005 http://www.nbc10.com/news
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says he's not as concerned about what's going on in secret CIA prisons as he is that their existence was leaked to the press.
Frist, R-Tenn., told reporters Thursday that leaks about the prisons are a bigger concern because they jeopardize safety and security.
Frist, who is also a physician, said he's "not concerned about what goes on" behind the prison walls, though he added that illegal activity should not take place.
He and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., have written the House and Senate intelligence committees asking for an investigation into the leak of possibly classified information about the secret prisons to The Washington Post.
Frist said that as Senate majority leader he has access to classified nformation about prison activity, and he's going to make sure everything that's done is consistent with the country's Constitution and laws.
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The concept of nonlocality is well known through Bell’s famous mathematical theorem in which he addresses the problem of the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox. In a system exhibiting nonlocality, the consequences of events at one place propagate to other places instantaneously. Although Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen were attempting to demonstrate a different conclusion (the incompleteness of the quantum theory), their analysis served to point out the conditions under which (as would become evident after Bell’s work) nonlocality arises.
The existence of such conditions in quantum mechanics was regarded by Erwin Schrödinger as being of great significance, and in a work in which he generalized the EPR argument, he called these conditions “the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics, the one that forces its entire departure from classical lines.” Bell’s work essentially completed the proof that the quantum phenomenon discovered by EPR and elaborated by Schrödinger truly does entail nonlocality.
Although the EPR paradox and Bell’s theorem are quite well known, there exists a misperception regarding the relationship these arguments bear to nonlocality. Some authors (mistakenly) conclude that the EPR paradox and Bell’s theorem imply that a conflict exists only between local theories of hidden variables and quantum mechanics, when a more general conclusion than this follows. When taken together, the EPR paradox and Bell’s theorem imply that any local theoretical explanation whatsoever must disagree with quantum mechanics. In Bell’s words: “It now seems that the non-locality is deeply rooted in quantum mechanics itself and will persist in any completion.” We can conclude from the EPR paradox and Bell’s theorem that the quantum theory is irreducibly nonlocal.
As we have mentioned, Erwin Schrödinger regarded the situation brought out in the Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen paper as a very important problem. His own work published just after the EPR paper provided a generalization of this analysis. This work contains Schrödinger’s presentation of the well known paradox of ‘Schrödinger’s cat’. However, a close look at the paper reveals much more. Schrödinger’s work contains a very extensive and thought provoking analysis of quantum theory. He begins with a statement of the nature of theoretical modeling and a comparison of this to the framework of quantum theory. He continues with the cat paradox, the measurement problem, and finally his generalization of the EPR paradox and its implications. In addition, he derives a result quite similar to that of von Neumann’s theorem.
Subsequent to our discussion of the issues of the EPR paradox, Bell’s theorem, and nonlocality, we will discuss a new form of quantum nonlocality proof based on Schrödinger’s generalization of the EPR paradox. The type of argument we shall present falls into the category of a “nonlocality without inequalities” proof. Such analyses—of which the first to be developed was that of Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger—differ from the nonlocality proof derived from the EPR paradox and Bell’s theorem in that they do not possess the statistical character of the latter.
—Douglas L. Hemmick, Hidden Variables and Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics (dissertation, .pdf)
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