TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hess, Karl
AU  - Raedt, Hans De
AU  - Michielsen, Kristel
TI  - Counterfactual Definiteness and Bell’s Inequality
JO  - Journal of modern physics
VL  - 07
IS  - 13
SN  - 2153-1196
CY  - Irvine, Calif.
PB  - Scientific Research Publ.
M1  - FZJ-2016-04844
SP  - 1651 - 1660
PY  - 2016
AB  - 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.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
DO  - DOI:10.4236/jmp.2016.713150
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/818383
ER  -