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View SchemaComment on Mermin's Recent Proof of the Theorem of Bell
| Authors | Karl Hess, Walter Philipp |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0207110 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0207110 |
Abstract
Mermin states in a recent paper that his nontechnical version of Bell's theorem stands and is not invalidated by time and setting dependent instrument parameters as claimed in one of our previous papers. We identify a number of misinterpretations (of our definitions) and mathematical inconsistencies in Mermin's paper and show that Mermin's conclusions are therefore not valid: his proof does not go forward if certain possible time dependencies are taken into account.
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