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View SchemaWhat Do These Correlations Know About Reality? Nonlocality and the Absurd
| Authors | N. David Mermin |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9807055 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9807055 |
| Journal | Found.Phys. 29 (1999) 571-587 |
Abstract
In honor of Daniel Greenberger's 65th birthday I record for posterity two superb examples of his wit, offer a proof of an important theorem on quantum correlations that even those of us over 60 can understand, and suggest, by trying to make it look silly, that invoking ``quantum nonlocality'' as an explanation for such correlations may be too cheap a way out of the dilemma they pose.
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