PIRSA:16060062 Conference Quantum Foundations

DOI10.48660/16060062

Conference/School: Concepts and Paradoxes in a Quantum Universe

Unruh, B. (2016). Quantum Mechanics is Not Non-Local. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/16060062

Unruh, Bill. Quantum Mechanics is Not Non-Local. Perimeter Institute, Jun. 23, 2016, https://pirsa.org/16060062 

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  doi = {10.48660/16060062},
  url = {https://pirsa.org/16060062},
  author = {Unruh, Bill},
  keywords = {Quantum Foundations},
  language = {en},
  title = {Quantum Mechanics is Not Non-Local},
  publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
  year = {2016},
  month = {jun},
  note = {PIRSA:16060062 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
}

Abstract

Bell's inequality is often stated as proving that quantum mechanics is non-local (rather than non-realistic, which apparently shows that physicists have more problems with non-realism than with non-locality). I will argue that the purpose of the use of locality in Bell's argument (in the CHSH form) is to make the classical system as close to the quantum system as possible, not to differentiate it from the quantum, and that non-realism is a more reasonable interpretation than is non-locality.

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