On 12/11/2017 4:34 am, John Clark wrote:
The title of this thread is about the consistency of Quantum
Mechanics, but far more important than QM is the ability of ANY theory
to be compatible with experimental results, and one of those
experiments shows the violation of Bell's Inequality. And that
violation tells us that for ANY theory to be successful at explaining
how the world works AT LEAST one of the following properties of that
theory must be untrue:
1) Determinism
2) Locality
3) Realism
You have repeated this claim several times, John, but it is not strictly
true. Maudlin summarizes it like this:
"Early on, Bell's result was often reported as ruling out /determinism/,
or /hidden variables/. Nowadays, it is sometimes reported as ruling out,
or at least calling in question, /realism/. But these are all mistakes.
What Bell's theorem, together with the experimental results, proves to
be impossible is not determinism or hidden variables or realism, but
/locality, /in a perfectly clear sense/. /What Bell proved, and what
theoretical physics has not yet properly absorbed, is that the physical
world itself is non-local."
This is from the article Stathis pointed to: Tim Maudlin,
arxiv:1408.1826 He says the same thing in his book and numerous other
articles where he spells this out in considerable detail.
Bruce
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