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| {bell, inequality, local} |
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Against `Realism'
Travis Norsen
abstract: We examine the prevalent use of the phrase ``local realism'' in the context
of Bell's Theorem and associated experiments, with a focus on the question:
what exactly is the `realism' in `local realism' supposed to mean? Carefully
surveying several possible meanings, we argue that all of them are flawed in
one way or another as attempts to point out a second premise (in addition to
locality) on which the Bell inequalities rest, and (hence) which might be
rejected in the face of empirical data violating the inequalities. We thus
suggest that the phrase `local realism' should be banned from future
discussions of these issues, and urge physicists to revisit the foundational
questions behind Bell's Theorem.
- oai_identifier:
- oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0607057
- categories:
- quant-ph
- comments:
- Revised version, forthcoming in Foundations of Physics
- doi:
- 10.1007/s10701-007-9104-1
- arxiv_id:
- quant-ph/0607057
- journal_ref:
- Foundations of Physics, Vol. 37 No. 3, 311-340 (March 2007)
- created:
- 2006-07-07
- updated:
- 2006-11-16
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