Peter, here is the challenge written out for you and/or your followers. I follow your "class room" paradigm, and I deleted superfluous suggestive words like "magic". Your job is to design three black boxes and the communication channels between them. The boxes and channels have to satisfy certain modest specs. What you put in the boxes is entirely up to you.
Joy and his followers can take on the same challenge too. If someone invents a new physics which "explains" quantum mechanics, then someone could succesfully do this experiment, by harnessing that physics. Tricky, maybe expensive.
So please do the experiment "in silico"!
Alice and Bob are physics students. They are in different classrooms and in each classroom there is a black box, called "measuring device A" and "measuring device B" respectively. These two boxes are connected to another black box in another classroom, called "source", through some kind of cables, tunnels, or whatever, so that all three black boxes have means to share any information they like. Alice and Bob's boxes each have two buttons, and two lights. The buttons can be pressed, the lights may or may not flash. The communication channels can be switched on and off.
Alice's buttons are labelled "0" and "90". Bob's are labelled "45" and "135". The lights on the boxes are red and green.
Initially the communication channels are open.
The following is now repeated 10 000 times:
Step 1. The connections are severed.
Step 2. Alice presses the button marked "0" or the button marked "90"; Bob presses the button marked "45" or the button marked "135". After Alice and Bob have each pressed a button, a red or a green light flashes on their box. They record their input and their output.
Step 3. The connections between the three black boxes are restored.
Assume that in each of the 10 000 runs or trials, Alice and Bob each choose their button completely at random. Imagine that we get to see the following statistics, each of course based on a disjoint subset of about 2 500 runs:
Prob(lights flash same colour | 0, 45)
= Prob(lights flash same colour | 90, 45)
= Prob(lights flash same colour | 90, 135)
= 0.15
Prob(lights flash same colour | 0, 135)
= 0.85
Challenge: write three computer programs which simulate the three boxes, to be run on three separate computers sending one another messages by internet (to simulate the communication channels).
Fine by me if you just write one computer program but it must be clear that it could be broken into separate pieces as required.
The first person who succeeds will almost certainly win the Nobel prize and revolutionarize quantum physics. And prove conclusively that quantum entanglement is a myth. You are welcome to program Joy Christian's S^3 based theory to achieve this aim. Why are we waiting? Which Bell-denier is going to be first? They can't even do this yet in the quantum optics lab, though they say they might get there in five years. (But they say that every year! Do you believe them?) Beat them to it, beat them at their own game!
