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for a system in state | measured in a basis containing |a . Every interpretation discussed here reproduces this rule for every experiment that has actually been performed. That includes Bell tests. John Bell showed in 1964 that any theory obeying two assumptions — that a measurement’s outcome depends only on a hidden variable carried by the particle and on the local setting of its own detector, not on the distant detector’s setting — predicts correlations between two separated measurements that are bounded above by a fixed value [ 1 ] . Quantum mechanics predicts correlations that exceed that bound for entangled pairs. This is a fact, not an interpretation: it was measured,…
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Comparing the Main Approaches to Quantum Foundations and Measurement
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for a system in state | measured in a basis containing |a . Every interpretation discussed here reproduces this rule for every experiment that has actually been performed. That includes Bell tests. John Bell showed in 1964 that any theory obeying two assumptions — that a measurement’s outcome depends only on a hidden variable carried by the particle and on the local setting of its own detector, not on the distant detector’s setting — predicts correlations between two separated measurements that are bounded above by a fixed value [ 1 ] . Quantum mechanics predicts correlations that exceed that bound for entangled pairs. This is a fact, not an interpretation: it was measured,…
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