Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorWiseman, HM
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:51:23Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:51:23Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.date.modified2009-10-13T21:53:32Z
dc.identifier.issn0010-7514
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00107510600581011
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/14374
dc.description.abstractIn this Einstein Year of Physics it seems appropriate to look at an important aspect of Einstein's work that is often down-played: his contribution to the debate on the interpretation of quantum mechanics. Contrary to popular opinion, Bohr had no defence against Einstein's 1935 attack (the EPR paper) on the claimed completeness of orthodox quantum mechanics. I suggest that Einstein's argument, as stated most clearly in 1946, could justly be called Einstein's reality-locality-completeness theorem, since it proves that one of these three must be false. Einstein's instinct was that completeness of orthodox quantum mechanics was the falsehood, but he failed in his quest to find a more complete theory that respected reality and locality. Einstein's theorem, and possibly Einstein's failure, inspired John Bell in 1964 to prove his reality-locality theorem. This strengthened Einstein's theorem (but showed the futility of his quest) by demonstrating that either reality or locality is a falsehood. This revealed the full nonlocality of the quantum world for the first time.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.format.extent135961 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Ltd.
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713394025
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom79
dc.relation.ispartofpageto88
dc.relation.ispartofjournalContemporary Physics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume47
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMathematical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPhysical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode49
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode51
dc.titleFrom Einstein's Theorem to Bell's Theorem: a history of quantum nonlocality
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2006 Taylor & Francis. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2006
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorWiseman, Howard M.


Files in this item

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

  • Journal articles
    Contains articles published by Griffith authors in scholarly journals.

Show simple item record