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Although I'm not a particle physicist, if I remember well what I read about it, this very demonstration proves that there is no predetermined hidden variable re
by pygy 18y ago
Although I'm not a particle physicist, if I remember well what I read about it, this very demonstration proves that there is no predetermined hidden variable revealed by observation.
Kochen spent a significant part of his life on the topic (see the first result here : http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=author:simon-kochen http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=author:simon-k... , 784 citations :-)
To quote the last version of the demonstration (http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0807/0807.3286v1.pdf http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0807/0807.3286v1.pdf)
"More precisely, if the experimenter
can freely choose the directions in which to orient his apparatus in a certain measurement,
then the particle’s response (to be pedantic – the universe’s response near the particle) is not
determined by the entire previous history of the universe."