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What Do These Correlations Know About Reality? Nonlocality and the Absurd

Quantum Physics 2016-09-08 v1

Abstract

In honor of Daniel Greenberger's 65th birthday I record for posterity two superb examples of his wit, offer a proof of an important theorem on quantum correlations that even those of us over 60 can understand, and suggest, by trying to make it look silly, that invoking ``quantum nonlocality'' as an explanation for such correlations may be too cheap a way out of the dilemma they pose.

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9807055,
  title  = {What Do These Correlations Know About Reality? Nonlocality and the Absurd},
  author = {N. David Mermin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9807055},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages, no figures, plain TEX

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