Reconsidering Mermin’s “In Praise of Measurement”

2008/06/03 by GianCarlo Ghirardi · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Chaos, Complexity, and Education #Criticism #Philosophy and History of Science #Philosophy of science #Position (finance) #Praise #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10701-008-9248-7

published in Foundations of Physics 38(11), 1011-1019 (Springer Science+Business Media)

arxiv created 2008/06/03 · openalex publication_date 2008/10/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We critically analyze a recent paper by D. Mermin and we compare his statements with Bell's position on the problems he is discussing.

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