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 Nobel Prize and the Misinterpreted Experiment on Bell's Inequality
The Nobel Prize was awarded for the experiments that showed the violation of Bell's inequality actually occurs./nThe Nobel committee made a mistake in their press release./nThe experiments proved that von Neumann was right about hidden variables./nBell became a strong advocate for theories with additional variables./nNon-locality is a characteristic of the world.
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