Travis Norsen

Are there really two different Bell’s theorems? (Open Review Paper)

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This is a polemical response to Howard Wiseman’s recent paper, “The two Bell’s theorems of John Bell”. Wiseman argues that, in 1964, Bell established a conflict between the quantum mechanical predictions and the joint assumptions of determinism and (what is now usually known as) “parameter independence”. Only later, in 1976, did Bell, according to Wiseman, fi rst establish a conflict between… Read more →

Quantum Solipsism and Non-Locality

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Travis Norsen Submitted to “Quantum Nonlocality and Reality – 50 Years of Bell’s theorem” J.S. Bell’s remarkable 1964 theorem showed that any theory sharing the empirical predictions of orthodox quantum mechanics would have to exhibit a surprising — and, from the point of view of relativity theory, very troubling — kind of non-locality. Unfortunately, even still on this 50th anniversary,… Read more →