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View SchemaEinstein's Boxes
| Authors | Travis Norsen |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0404016 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404016 |
| DOI | 10.1119/1.1811620 |
| Journal | American Journal of Physics, 73 (2), February 2005, pp. 164-176 |
Abstract
At the 1927 Solvay conference, Einstein presented a thought experiment intended to demonstrate the incompleteness of the quantum mechanical description of reality. In the following years, the thought experiment was picked up and modified by Einstein, de Broglie, and several other commentators into a simple scenario involving the splitting in half of the wave function of a single particle in a box. In this paper we collect together several formulations of this thought experiment from the existing literature; analyze and assess it from the point of view of the Einstein-Bohr debates, the EPR dilemma, and Bell's theorem; and generally lobby for Einstein's Boxes taking its rightful place alongside similar but historically better-known quantum mechanical thought experiments such as EPR and Schroedinger's Cat.
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