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Quantum Mechanics Versus Local Realism

The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Franco Selleri

    1. University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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Part of the book series: Physics of Atoms and Molecules (PAMO)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. History of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox

    • Franco Selleri
    Pages 1-61

  3. Are Faster-Than-Light Influences Necessary?

    • Henry P. Stapp
    Pages 63-85

  4. All the Inequalities of Einstein Locality

    • Augusto Garuccio
    Pages 87-113

  5. Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiments Using the Decays of ηc or J/ψ into ΛΛ̄ → π-→pπ+p̄

    • Nils A. Törnqvist
    Pages 115-132

  6. Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox for the K0-KÌ„0 and B0-BÌ„0 Systems

    • Dipankar Home
    Pages 133-147

  7. Even Local Probabilities Lead to the Paradox

    • Franco Selleri
    Pages 149-174

  8. The Experimental Investigation of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Question and Bell’s Inequality

    • A. J. Duncan, H. Kleinpoppen
    Pages 175-218

  9. Rapisarda’s Experiment: Testing Quantum Mechanics versus Local Hidden-Variable Theories with Dichotomic Analyzers

    • Lorenzo Pappalardo, Filippo Falciglia
    Pages 219-234

  10. Nonlocality and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiment as Understood through the Quantum-Potential Approach

    • D. Bohm, B. J. Hiley
    Pages 235-256

  11. Interpretation of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Effect in Terms of a Generalized Causality

    • Jerzy Rayski
    Pages 257-271

  12. Quantum Action-at-a-Distance: The Mystery of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations

    • A. Kyprianidis, J. P. Vigier
    Pages 273-299

  13. Particle Trajectories and Quantum Correlations

    • C. Dewdney, P. R. Holland
    Pages 301-325

  14. Bell’s Inequality and the Nonergodic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

    • Vincent Buonomano
    Pages 327-343

  15. An Extended-Probability Response to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument

    • W. Mückenheim
    Pages 345-364

  16. The Search for Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics

    • Emilio Santos
    Pages 365-390

  17. Variable Detection Probability Models for Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Type Experiments

    • Saverio Pascazio
    Pages 391-411

  18. Stochastic Electrodynamics and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument

    • Trevor Marshall
    Pages 413-432

  19. Explicit Calculations with a Hidden-Variable Spin Model

    • O. A. Barut
    Pages 433-446

  20. Symmetric and Asymmetric Models for Atomic Cascade Experiments

    • Miguel Ferrero, Trevor Marshall, Emilio Santos
    Pages 447-456
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If you have two small objects, one here on Earth and the other on the planet Pluto, what would you say of the following statement: No modification of the properties of the object on the earth can take place as a consequence of an interaction of the distant object with a third body also located on Pluto? The opinion that the previous statement is correct is very natural, but modern quantum theory implies that it must be wrong in certain cases. Consider in fact two arbitrary objects separated by such a large distance that they are unable to exert any important mutual influence. It is possible to show rigorously that a measurable physical quantity exists, with a value more than 40% different from the value theoretically predicted by quantum mechanics. Necessarily then, either space is largely an illusion of our senses and it does not exist objectively, or information can be sent from the future to the past, or ... something important has to be changed in modern physics. This is the essence of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox. A paradox is an argument that derives absurd conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises. In the case of the EPR paradox the absurd conclusion is that Bell's observable d should have two different values d = 2.Ji and The "acceptable premises" are the following: 1. All the empirical predictions of the existing quantum theory are correct.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Franco Selleri

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quantum Mechanics Versus Local Realism

  • Book Subtitle: The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox

  • Editors: Franco Selleri

  • Series Title: Physics of Atoms and Molecules

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8774-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-8776-3Published: 01 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-8774-9Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 461

  • Topics: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

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