Tag: Quantum physics

After over a month of writing, editing and re-editing, Bell’s Inequality 2 is finally ready to publish. I learned LaTex and put my equations directly into my page with a plugin call QuickLaTeX. It’s quite a tedious process, but as far as I can tell, it’s either that or create my pages as PDFs, as I did for Bell’s Inequality 1. Hopefully, I’ll get better at it as I go. I’ve investigated (and tried) a few other plugins but they haven’t worked very well. If anyone knows of an easier way, I would be eager to hear about them.

The article is a bit long, mainly because there are multiple explanations of subjects that are second nature to experts but probably confusing to the uninitiated. Frankly, I wish I would have had more such explanations when I was trying to learn about these topics. That’s why I included them. However, as I read them over, the explanations, themselves, are tedious. I would be interested in feedback about how I might deliver this content in a more efficient manner.

Bell’s Inequality 2 is about John Bell’s original paper, published in 1966, that provided a way to test whether quantum mechanics is a true description of reality or-as Einstein suggested-an incomplete theory; a theory that overlooks the fact that local hidden variables are actually at play to produce the results that quantum mechanic predicts. However, Bell’s paper raised theoretical questions but did not provide experimental evidence to answer them. The scientific world would have to wait a number of years for such answers. The paper that is usually cited as having provided a definitive answer to these questions is one by Alain Aspect in 1982. Aspect’s paper is the subject of the third installment in this series on Bell’s inequality, an article entitled Bell’s Inequality 3. I will begin work on it shortly, a project that will undoubtedly take some time. Meanwhile, a link to the second installment in this series can be accessed by clicking on the link below:

Bell’s Inequality 2