The Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics
@article{Kochen1967ThePO, title={The Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics}, author={Simon Kochen and Ernst Specker}, journal={Indiana University Mathematics Journal}, year={1967}, volume={17}, pages={59-87} }
Forty years after the advent of quantum mechanics the problem of hidden variables, that is, the possibility of imbedding quantum theory into a classical theory, remains a controversial and obscure subject. Whereas to most physicists the possibility of a classical reinterpretation of quantum mechanics remains remote and perhaps irrelevant to current problems, a minority have kept the issue alive throughout this period. (See Freistadt [5] for a review of the problem and a comprehensive…
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