The Meaning of Bell's Theorem

2003/10/15 by Anthony Rizzi, Rizzi, Anthony
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms #FOS: Physical sciences #Philosophy and History of Science #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0310098

20 pages, 1 figure in png format

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Abstract

The import of Bell's Theorem is elucidated. The theorem's proof is illustrated both heuristically and in mathematical detail in a pedagogical fashion. In the same fashion, it is shown that the proof is correct mathematically, but it doesn't require, as is usually thought, one to abandon locality or realism.

Citations

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