Quantum Physics: John Stewart Bell: EPR
Hidden Variables explain Bell's Inequality / Bell's Theorem and apparent 'non-locality' / statistical result of famous EPR Experiment. Matter, as a Wave structure of the universe, is subtly interconnected to all other matter (interconnected ensemble).
Quantum Physics: John Stewart Bell (1928 - 1990): On Bell's Inequality, EPR Paradox and apparent 'non-locality'
It has been argued that quantum mechanics is not locally causal and cannot be embedded in a locally causal theory. That conclusion depends on treating certain experimental parameters, typically the orientations of polarization filters, as free variables. But it might be that this apparent freedom is illusory. Perhaps experimental parameters and experimental results are both consequences, or partially so, of some common hidden mechanism. Then the apparent non-locality could be simulated. (John Bell, 'Free Variables and Local Causality', 'Epistemological Letters', 15, 1977)
The discomfort that I feel is associated with the fact that the observed perfect quantum correlations seem to demand something like the 'genetic' hypothesis. For me, it is so reasonable to assume that the photons in those experiments carry with them programs, which have been correlated in advance, telling them how to behave. This is so rational that I think that when Einstein saw that, and the others refused to see it, he was the rational man. The other people, although history has justified them, were burying their heads in the sand. I feel that Einstein's intellectual superiority over Bohr, in this instance, was enormous; a vast gulf between the man who saw clearly what was needed, and the obscurantist. So for me, it is a pity that Einstein's idea doesn't work. The reasonable thing just doesn't work.
(John Stewart Bell (1928-1990), author of 'Bell's Theorem' / 'Bell's Inequality', quoted in Quantum Profiles, by Jeremy Bernstein [Princeton University Press, 1991, p. 84] From Kelly Ross, http://www.friesian.com/space-2.htm)
That the guiding wave, in the general case, propagates not in ordinary three-space but in a multi-dimensional configuration space is the origin of the notorious 'non-locality' of quantum mechanics. It is a merit of the de Broglie- Bohm version to bring this out so explicitly that it cannot be ignored.Quantum-Physics Quantum-Physics
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