Just Plain Wrong

The Dalliance of Quantum Theory with the Defiance of Bell's Inequality

Frank Lad

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781035830084
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Quantum Theory

The educated public have long been regaled with "the mysteries of quantum physics", which enshroud far - flung claims about the fundamental nature of matter. These rely on a stunning proposition of quantum theory arising in the 1960s and contested through the subsequent sixty years: that the probabilities deriving from it defy a mathematical inequality known as Bell's inequality. John Bell himself, who formulated the problem, was puzzled by the result, and surmised that in time we would discover what is wrong with its characterisation of the matter. In this book, Frank Lad claims to have identified the mathematical error that gives rise to the misunderstanding. Addressed as a challenge to the physics community, its content is accessible to any generally educated reader who is familiar with university-level concepts of linear algebra and functions of several variables. Understanding of complete mathematical detail is not required for appreciation. Largely ignored and dismissed by the scientific community of professional physicists, here is the background to the result, and the resolution to the controversy.

Table of contents

• Chapter Summaries
• Chapter 1 WHAT IS SO WRONG? a mathematical error of neglect
• Chapter 2 EXTENDING THE SETUP TO TWO PAIRS OF PARTICLES: a gedankenexperiment requiring more denken
• Chapter 3 RESURRECTING LOCAL REALISM: the prospect of supplementary variables
• Chapter 4 MORE HOOJUMS THAN BOOJUMS: Quantum Mysteries for No one
• Chapter 5 SIMULATING MULTI-POLARISATION IN A GEDANKENEXPERIMENT: the irrelevance of empirical averages
• Chapter 6 ON PROBABILITY AND QUANTUM PHYSICS
• Chapter 7 WHERE IT ALL STARTED … back to John Bell himself