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[Qirg] Question on entangled photon reflections

JW <jw@pcthink.com> Tue, 26 March 2019 19:40 UTC

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Subject: [Qirg] Question on entangled photon reflections
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Hi Qirg,
This could just be the sleep deprivation, but I just had a thought regarding entangled photons.
Will entanglement follow a reflected photon?
My paraphrasing of the working theory for reflected photons is a new photon is emitted with equal and opposite attributes (ignoring polarity).
Following this logic, two perfectly parallel reflective surfaces would maintain most attributes, would entanglement be one?
According to some experiments I've read involving entangled photons across two separate processors leverage optical circulators which although operate differently than reflection, do contort a photon's attributes while maintaining entanglement. My thinking is if teleportation can transfer entanglement from one particle to another, there is at least a chance.

Thanks,John

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