PIRSA:16060062

Quantum Mechanics is Not Non-Local

APA

Unruh, B. (2016). Quantum Mechanics is Not Non-Local. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/16060062

MLA

Unruh, Bill. Quantum Mechanics is Not Non-Local. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Jun. 23, 2016, https://pirsa.org/16060062

BibTex

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:16060062,
            doi = {10.48660/16060062},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/16060062},
            author = {Unruh, Bill},
            keywords = {Quantum Foundations},
            language = {en},
            title = {Quantum Mechanics is Not Non-Local},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2016},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:16060062 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/16060062}}
          }
          

Bill Unruh University of British Columbia

Talk numberPIRSA:16060062
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Abstract

Bell's inequality is often stated as proving that quantum mechanics is non-local (rather than non-realistic, which apparently shows that physicists have more problems with non-realism than with non-locality). I will argue that the purpose of the use of locality in Bell's argument (in the CHSH form) is to make the classical system as close to the quantum system as possible, not to differentiate it from the quantum, and that non-realism is a more reasonable interpretation than is non-locality.