BERTLMANN'S SOCKS AND THE NATURE OF REALITY
@article{Bell1981BERTLMANNSSA,
title={BERTLMANN'S SOCKS AND THE NATURE OF REALITY},
author={John Stewart Bell},
journal={Le Journal De Physique Colloques},
year={1981},
volume={42},
pages={41-62}
}The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations are very like many ordinary occurrences of everyday life. So it is a little difficult for the man in the street to understand immediately why there has been so much fuss about them. It must be recalled that the founding fathers of quantum mechanics had convinced themselves that it was necessary to abandon the idea of an objective reality at the microphysical level. But the correlations in question, together with the idea of local causality, were a…
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