Wave-packet reduction as a medium of communication

Foundations of Physics 7 (9-10):759-767 (1977)
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Abstract

Using an apparatus in which two scalers register decays from a radioactive source, an observer located near one of the scalers attempted to convey a message to an observer located near the other one by choosing to look or to refrain from looking at his scaler. The results indicate that no message was conveyed. Doubt is thereby thrown upon the hypothesis that the reduction of the wave packet is due to the interaction of the physical apparatus with the psyche of an observer.A. Einstein(1)

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