Journal Article

FZJ-2016-04844

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Counterfactual Definiteness and Bell’s Inequality

Hess, K. ; Raedt, H. D. ; Michielsen, K. (Corresponding author)FZJ*

2016
Scientific Research Publ. Irvine, Calif.

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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/12346  doi:10.4236/jmp.2016.713150

Abstract: Counterfactual definiteness must be used as at least one of the postulates or axioms that are necessary to derive Bell-type inequalities. It is considered by many to be a postulate that not only is commensurate with classical physics (as for example Einstein’s special relativity), but also separates and distinguishes classical physics fromquantum mechanics. It is the purpose of this paper to show that Bell’s choice of mathematical functions and independent variables implicitly includes counterfactual definiteness. However, his particular choice of variables reduces the generality of his theory, as well as the physics of all Bell-type theories, so significantly that no meaningful comparison of these theories with actual Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiments can be made.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC)

Research Program(s):

1. 511 - Computational Science and Mathematical Methods (POF3-511) (POF3-511)

Appears in the scientific report 2016

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