Bell's Theorem: a new Derivation that Preserves Heisenberg and Locality

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dc.creatorClover, Michael
dc.date2004-09-10
dc.date2004-10-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:10:49Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:10:49Z
dc.descriptionBy implicitly assuming that all measurements occur simultaneously, Bell's Theorem only applied to local theories that violated Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. By explicitly introducing time into our derivation of Bell's theorem, an extra term related to the time-ordering of actual measurements is found to augment (i.e. weaken) the upper bound of the inequality. Since the same locality assumptions hold for this rederivation as for the original, we conclude that only {\em classical} measurement-order independent local hidden variable theories are constrained by Bell's inequality; time dependent, non-classical local theories (i.e. theories respecting Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle) can satisfy this new bound while exceeding Bell's limit. Unconditional nonlocality is only expected to occur with Bell parameters between $2\sqrt{2}$ and 4. This weakening of Bell's inequality is seen for the quantum Bell operator (squared) as an extra term involving the commutators of {\em local} measurement operators. We note that a factorizable second-quantized wavefunction can reproduce experimental measurements; because such wavefunctions allow local de Broglie-Bohm hidden variable modelling, we have another indication that violation of {\em Bell's} inequality does not require an acceptance of non-locality.
dc.description4 pages; removed references to an experiment that wouldn't prove anything, changed title to reflect new emphasis
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0409058
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0409058
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/92358
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleBell's Theorem: a new Derivation that Preserves Heisenberg and Locality
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