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241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The History of Quantum Mechanics

In 1952, the theory gets reborn under Bohm's name. Bell says he was told by his physics professors that von Neumann had proven it can't be done mathematically. He asks himself surely what Einstein must have been asking himself, can you get rid of it? Can I have a kind of theory like this, but without the non-locality in it, that still makes the right predictions,. That's the very precise thought that Bell had.

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