Counterfactual Reasoning, Realism and Quantum Mechanics: Much Ado About Nothing?
Quantum Physics
2017-05-24 v1
Abstract
I purport to show why old and new claims on the role of counterfactual reasoning for the EPR argument and the Bell theorem are unjustified: once the logical relation between locality and counterfactual reasoning is clarified, the use of the latter does no harm and the nonlocality result can well follow from the EPR premises. To show why, I critically review (i) incompleteness arguments that Einstein developed before the EPR paper, and (ii) more recent claims that equate the use of counterfactual reasoning with the assumption of a strong form of realism.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1705.08287,
title = {Counterfactual Reasoning, Realism and Quantum Mechanics: Much Ado About Nothing?},
author = {Federico Laudisa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.08287},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1501.04618 by other authors