Abstract
The demonstrations of von Neumann and others, that quantum mechanics does not permit a hidden variable interpretation, are reconsidered. It is shown that their essential axioms are unreasonable. It is urged that in further examination of this problem an interesting axiom would be that mutually distant systems are independent of one another.
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Hidden variable theoryPhysicsAxiomInterpretations of quantum mechanicsMinority interpretations of quantum mechanicsConsistent historiesVon Neumann architectureInterpretation (philosophy)Theoretical physicsMeasurement problemQuantum mechanicsClassical mechanicsQuantumQuantum statistical mechanicsQuantum processSupersymmetric quantum mechanicsPure mathematicsQuantum dynamicsMathematicsComputer science
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- 1966
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- 38
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- 3
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- 447-452
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- 2721
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John S. Bell
(1966).
On the Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics.
Reviews of Modern Physics
, 38
(3)
, 447-452.
https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.38.447
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- DOI
- 10.1103/revmodphys.38.447