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to transport information from one telephone to another telephone, in a different location. When Alice measures her spin, the information she gets is localized at her position, and will remain so until she decides to broadcast it. Absolutely
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called the book "a treasure trove of novel perspectives on quantum mechanics" and said that Peres' choice of topics is "a catalogue of common omissions" from other approaches. Among its substantial discussion of the failure of
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