What Do Bell-Tests Prove? A Detailed Critique of Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt Including Counterexamples
What Do Bell-Tests Prove? A Detailed Critique of Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt Including Counterexamples作者机构:Center for Advanced Study University of Illinois Urbana Illinois USA
出 版 物:《Journal of Modern Physics》 (现代物理(英文))
年 卷 期:2021年第12卷第9期
页 面:1219-1236页
学科分类:07[理学] 070201[理学-理论物理] 0702[理学-物理学]
主 题:Bell Theorem Clauser-Horne-Shimomy-Holt Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen
摘 要:Many future directions of scientific endeavors depend on quantum theory and the precise interpretation and significance of the entanglement of quantum-particles. This interpretation depends in turn on the physical meaning of so called Bell-tests that are mostly performed using entangled photons and randomly switched polarizers to measure their polarization at distant locations. This paper presents a detailed critique of the well known theory of Bell tests given by Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH). It is demonstrated that several important steps of the CHSH derivations contain serious inaccuracies of the underlying physics and probability theory and even a calculus error. As a consequence, the Bell-CHSH theory cannot be used to demonstrate extreme and opposite interpretations of entanglement such as super-luminal influences or alternatively super-determinism that cast aspersions on Einstein’s concepts of locality and separability.