Talk:John Stewart Bell

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I have added a little to the page (re the loopholes in the Bell tests) and given a couple of refs and a link to a biography. This does not pretend to be a full coverage of the subject. Caroline Thompson 09:52, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

It should be "superluminal" instead of supraluminal.

[edit] According to whom did Bell hope that QM would be falsified?

"John Bell [..] had hoped that [..] experiments would eventually falsify quantum mechanics." - From reading his book, I find no such thought. He seemed to believe strongly in QM. Thus, what is the above claim based on? Harald88 18:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Thus I now park the doubtful phrase here:

, and that experiments would eventually falsify quantum mechanics

Harald88 14:03, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "EPR and Bell theorem"?

The article now asks: "perhaps one can instead regard EPR and Bell's theorem as a success?"

However, it is generally held that Bell's theorem disproved the EPR claim about specific (from the start determining) hidden variables, and Bell agreed with that. Thus that sentence needs rephrasing.

Harald88 20:14, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Formatting

This needs to be properly formatted

and why does it read like personal notes? (exclamations etc) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chef d (talkcontribs) 19:01, November 9, 2006 (UTC)