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Bell found that if his famous inequality were violated that would
imply abandoning the concept of 'local reality'. 'Local', in this
connection, means no communication faster than the speed of light;
'reality' means that
the world exists
independently of our observations of it.
. . . If the Bell inequality is violated (which
it is), then local reality must be abandoned
even if quantum mechanics is completely wrong.
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p. 158
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John Gribbin
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Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality
Back Bay Books, 1995
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Gribbin refers to physicist Jonathan Bell. Bell showed that 'local
reality' holds only if certain measured attributes occur more
often than others. Bell's inequality has been violated in several
experiments in quantum mechanics (pp. 24-27).
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