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From: elt@astrovax.UUCP (Ed Turner)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Bell's Inequality
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 13:00:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 13:00:54 1985
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The April 1985 issue of PHYSICS TODAY has a very stimulating article on the
physical interpretation, history, metaphysical implications, and recent
experimental verification of Bell's Inequality.  Check it out!

If there was ever a suitable subject for confused and confusing postings to
net.physics, this is it in my opinion.  So what do you think?  Is there a
"real problem" with Quantum Mechanics (as Feynmann puts it)?  Is the moon
really there when you aren't looking at it (to paraphrase Einstein)?

My own opinion is that QM is at best an incomplete theory since it must rely
on classical (non-quantum) descriptions of the act of measurement to obtain
"the collapse of the wave function".  If one sticks entirely to QM wave
functions, there is no collapse to particular eigen states.  

Ed Turner
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