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Equation 1 · Part 2 · God Plays Dice, and Evolution Loads Them

Symbol E

S=∣E(a,b)−E(a,b′)+E(a′,b)+E(a′,b′)∣≤2S = \left| E(a,b) - E(a,b') + E(a',b) + E(a',b') \right| \le 2
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E is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.

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E is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.

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EPR’s paper stayed a philosophical argument until 1964, when John Bell showed it could be turned into an experiment [ 3 ] . Bell proved that any theory obeying both locality — no faster-than-light influence — and realism, in the sense of outcomes fixed by pre-existing local properties, must satisfy a statistical bound. For a simple two-setting test, S=∣E(a,b)−E(a,b′)+E(a′,b)+E(a′,b′)∣≤2S = \left| E(a,b) - E(a,b') + E(a',b) + E(a',b') \right| \le 2. holds for any local realist theory, while quantum mechanics allows S up to 22\sqrt{2} ≈\approx 2.83 . Early experimental violations left the detection loophole (too many unmeasured particles to rule out a biased subsample) and the locality loophole (stations not separated fast and far enough to exclude a hidden signal) open to…

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