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Bell's inequality was used to prove incompatibility between local and hidden variable theories. What's the point of fancier Bell's inequalities?
by haecceity 6y ago
Bell's inequality was used to prove incompatibility between local and hidden variable theories. What's the point of fancier Bell's inequalities?
- mellosouls 6y agoFrom the abstract, among other things: [We] find a Bell inequality that is more robust to noise than the celebrated Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt Bell inequality. Finally, we elaborate on the tension between mathematical beauty, which was our initial motivation, and experimental friendliness, which is necessary in all empirical sciences
- n4r9 6y agoI can think of several answers: - Their violation may be more practical to verify experimentally - They may be less prone to various loopholes - They may be more beautiful - They may elucidate something deeper about the structure of quantum mechanics