2005/08/31 by Olival Freire, Olival Freire Jr · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Physics and Astronomy · #Philosophy and History of Science #Philosophy, Science, and History #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #physics.hist-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.shpsb.2005.12.003
published as Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 37, 577-616, 2006 · 57 pages, accepted by Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
arxiv created 2006/01/22 · openalex publication_date 2006/07/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2017/07/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper deals with the ways that the issue of completing quantum mechanics was brought into laboratories and became a topic in mainstream quantum optics. It focuses on the period between 1965, when Bell published what now we call Bell's theorem, and 1982, when Aspect published the results of his experiments. I argue that what was considered good physics after Aspect's experiments was once considered by many a philosophical matter instead of a scientific one, and that the path from philosophy to physics required a change in the physics community's attitude about the status of the foundations of quantum mechanics.