Evidence of Action-at-a-Distance in Experiments with Individual Particles

M. E. Burgos^*

Departamento de Física, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela.

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2015.611168                

Abstract

We make a brief historical revision of action-at-a-distance in quantum mechanics. Non-locality has been mostly related to systems of two particles in an entangled state. We show that this effect is also apparent in some experiments with individual particles. An easily performed experiment in this regard is introduced.

Keywords

Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, The Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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