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The EPR paradox was resolved a while ago, strongly in favour of Einstein's "spooky action at a distance". The first experiments were done in the 70's. See: htt
by lindenr 13y ago
The EPR paradox was resolved a while ago, strongly in favour of Einstein's "spooky action at a distance". The first experiments were done in the 70's. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
Also the last paragraph of the introduction at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
- jballanc 13y agoYes, but as with most things in physics, the first signs that an idea is dead usually come decades before the ghost is truly given up. Take, for example, this work from 2012 that was still dealing with a variation on the "hidden variables" formulation: http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/quantum-entanglement-shows-that-reality-cant-be-local/ http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/quantum-entanglement-...
- einhverfr 13y agoI think you have a larger problem though. A theory is (as Heisenberg explained in his book "Physics and Philosophy") an interpretation of data based upon unscientific, non-falsifiable, a priori assumptions on the part of the theorist. You can't really disprove something as nebulous as "hidden variables." That's not a falsifiable statement. What you can do is disprove some theory based on hidden variables. Such evidence does not apply to the possibility of other theories of hidden variables that are yet unformulated.
- dllthomas 13y agoMy understanding is that any sort of local hidden variables have been ruled out (at least, if you want to preserve causality).
- GregBuchholz 13y agoI'm not a physicist, but I'd be interested in people's opinions on: "Chaotic Ball" model,local realism and the Bell test loopholes. http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210150 http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210150