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59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Proof of Von Neumann's Proof
In 1952, Bell sees the papers from David Baum. He immediately realizes there's nothing wrong with what Baum said. So he goes off and works in other things for a few years. And then finally in the mid 1960s, he gets a chance to think about these things when von Neumann's proof is finally available in English along with a couple of other proofs that are sort of related. It clearly doesn't work. How can you prove something can't exist when here's an example that exists? Right. The point is well known physicist Rudolf Pyrells gave him a look and said, why don't you give a talk about accelerator physics?And so he just he
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