Bell’s Theorem and EPR

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Zak and Derek discuss nothing less than the fundamental nature of reality. They start with the arguments made in the Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen paper from 1935, which were then tackled by John Bell in 1964 with Bell’s Theorem and Bell inequalities. References: The original Bell paper (1964): https://cds.cern.ch/record/111654/files/vol1p195-200_001.pdf The original EPR paper (1935): http://www.drchinese.com/David/EPR.pdf Bohr’s response to EPR (1935): http://cds.cern.ch/record/1060284/files/PhysRev.48.696.pdf Bohm’s physics textbook. Specifically, page 29, and Chapter 5 section 3, and Chapter 22 Section 19. (1951): https://books.google.com/books?id=hEHCAgAAQBAJ David Mermin’s paper (1985): http://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/~maltoni/PHY1222/mermin_moon.pdf David Mermin talk at Berkeley (2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta09WXiUqcQ Tim Maudlin’s talk “What Bell Did” (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg5z_zeZP60 Bell’s Theorem in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (good historical overview): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bell-theorem/ GHZ (3-particle) experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHZ_experiment Bell’s Theorem in popular Youtube channels: Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvK-od647c Through the Looking Glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-s3q9wlLag MinutePhysics & 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs 3Blue1Brown & MinutePhysics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzRCDLre1b4 Physics Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6WxIblKVZI (Note: At about 46:40, Derek says “This now gets at the Schrodinger’s Cat problem, which was a reply to the EPR and Bohm papers,” but should have said “EPR and Bohr papers”.)The podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/ Join our listener community on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheHyperfine/ Follow the show on Instagram @thehyperfine: https://www.instagram.com/thehyperfine/ Derek on Instagram (and Twitter) @liketortilla: https://www.instagram.com/liketortilla/ Zak on Twitter @phyzaks: https://twitter.com/phyzaks

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