Rev. Mod. Phys. 38, 447 - 452 (1966)On the Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics |
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JOHN S. BELL *
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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.
©1966 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/RMP/v38/p447
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.38.447
* Permanent address: CERN, Geneva.
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