John Bell in Belfast: Early Years and Education

Whitaker, Andrew

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“…If possible Bell wished to eliminate the distinction between quantum and classical altogether, and the most obvious way to do attempt to do that was by hidden variables. [20], Sect. 5 …”

Section: Early Thoughtsmentioning

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“…As noted above in the quotation from Whitaker's memoir [20], Bell was already attracted in his undergraduate years by the idea of a hidden variables theory supplementing the description of a physical system given by quantum mechanics. (He objected later to the term "hidden variables", which suggests inaccessibility to any experimental probing, and preferred "beables", as indicated in one of the quotations above.)…”

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2002

Phys Perspect

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“…If possible Bell wished to eliminate the distinction between quantum and classical altogether, and the most obvious way to do attempt to do that was by hidden variables. [20], Sect. 5 …”

Section: Early Thoughtsmentioning

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2002

Phys Perspect

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“…4 We can reconstruct this account due to Bell (1982) and Jeremy Bernstein, who wrote his Quantum Profiles based on extensive talks with Bell and John Wheeler. Besides Bernstein (1991), biographical information on Bell can also be collected from Shimony (2002a), Whitaker (2002), and from papers by Bernard d 'Espagnat, Michael Horne, and others, gathered in Bertlmann and Zeilinger (2002). For a comprehensive evaluation of Bell's scientific contributions, see Jackiw and Shimony (2002 from CERN.…”

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Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965–1982)

Freire

2006

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in

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This paper deals with the ways that the issue of completing quantum mechanics was brought into laboratories and became a topic in mainstream quantum optics. It focuses on the period between 1965, when the Bell published what we now call Bell's theorem, and 1982, when Aspect published the results of his experiments. Discussing some of those past contexts and practices, I show that factors in addition to theoretical innovations, experiments, and techniques were necessary for the flourishing of this subject, and that the experimental implications of Bell's theorem were neither suddenly recognized nor quickly highly regarded by physicists. Indeed, I will argue that what was considered good physics after Aspect's 1982 experiments was once considered by many a philosophical matter instead of a scientific one, and that the path from philosophy to physics required a change in the physics community's attitude about the status of the foundations of quantum mechanics.

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Philosophy Enters the Optics Laboratory: Bell’s Theorem and Its First Experimental Tests (1965–1982)

Freire¹

2014

The Quantum Dissidents

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This paper deals with the ways that the issue of completing quantum mechanics was brought into laboratories and became a topic in mainstream quantum optics. It focuses on the period between 1965, when Bell published what we now call Bell's theorem, and 1982, when Aspect published the results of his experiments. Discussing some of those past contexts and practices, I show that factors in addition to theoretical innovations, experiments, and techniques were necessary for the flourishing of this subject, and that the experimental implications of Bell's theorem were neither suddenly recognized nor quickly highly regarded by physicists. Indeed, I will argue that what was considered good physics after Aspect's 1982 experiments was once considered by many a philosophical matter instead of a scientific one, and that the path from philosophy to physics required a change in the physics community's attitude about the status of the foundations of quantum mechanics.

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John Bell in Belfast: Early Years and Education

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