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- From: paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: hidden variables
- Message-ID: <462@mtnmath.UUCP>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 16:14:18 GMT
- References: <31DEC199211004292@author.gsfc.nasa.gov> <mcirvin.725844416@husc.harvard.edu>
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- In article <mcirvin.725844416@husc.harvard.edu>, mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
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- > [...]
- > Of course, such [nonlocal] theories remove the original rationale for hidden-variable
- > theories, which was precisely to get rid of spooky action at a distance.
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- The major motivation was to get rid of probability as a
- fundamental aspect of physical theory. There was little understanding
- of the nonlocal nature of quantum mechanics when this debate started
- in the 1930s.
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- Paul Budnik
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