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Bell’s inequality – „Perharps he has been murdered”

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„Perharps he has been murdered”

Was Omega murdered? And what does Einstein have to do with it?

Further reading: A. Einstein, B. Podolsky, N. Rosen: Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?, Phys. Rev. 47 (1935), S. 777–780 doi:10.1103/PhysRev.47.777 


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Omega murdered? There is no quantum oscillation at all in the quantum dimension? Doubt was cast upon the concept of Alice and Bob being connected non-locally through the quantum dimension by Albert Einstein in 1935. For that purpose, he conducted one of his well-known thought experiments, and published his doubts under the name of the EPR paradox. Einstein designated the mysterious connection between Alice and Bob “spooky action at a distance” and was convinced that quantum physics predicting this connection must be incomplete, and would be replaced by a hidden variables theory in future. At that time, Einstein’s considerations could not yet be verified experimentally.

The modern measurement results with entangled photons show that the theoretical prediction of quantum mechanics are consistent with all experiments so far. Did Einstein then err at that time? Or is there in fact an alternative explanation, which gets by without the non-local interference of quantum physics?

 

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