2002/02/28 by Daniele Tommasini, Tommasini, Daniele
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed Matter (cond-mat) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Philosophy and History of Science #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #cond-mat #hep-th #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0202175
12 pages, 2 figures
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Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR) argued that the quantum-mechanical probabilistic description of physical reality had to be incomplete, in order to avoid an instantaneous action between distant measurements. This suggested the need for additional "hidden variables", allowing for the recovery of determinism and locality, but such a solution has been disproved experimentally. Here, I present an opposite solution, based on the greater indeterminism of the modern quantum theory of Particle Physics, predicting that the number of photons is always uncertain. No violation of locality is allowed for the physical reality, and the theory can fulfill the EPR criterion of completeness.