Hidden Variables and the Two Theorems of John Bell
Quantum Physics
2018-03-01 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
Although skeptical of the prohibitive power of no-hidden-variables theorems, John Bell was himself responsible for the two most important ones. I describe some recent versions of the lesser known of the two (familar to experts as the "Kochen-Specker theorem") which have transparently simple proofs. One of the new versions can be converted without additional analysis into a powerful form of the very much better known "Bell's Theorem", thereby clarifying the conceptual link between these two results of Bell.
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@article{arxiv.1802.10119,
title = {Hidden Variables and the Two Theorems of John Bell},
author = {N. David Mermin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.10119},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
27 pages, no figures. An initial page explains why I am posting this 25-year-old article