Philosophy Enters the Optics Laboratory: Bell's Theorem and its First Experimental Tests (1965-1982)

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dc.creatorFreire Jr, Olival
dc.date2005-08-24
dc.date2006-01-22
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dc.descriptionThis paper deals with the ways that the issue of completing quantum mechanics was brought into laboratories and became a topic in mainstream quantum optics. It focuses on the period between 1965, when Bell published what now we call Bell's theorem, and 1982, when Aspect published the results of his experiments. I argue that what was considered good physics after Aspect's experiments was once considered by many a philosophical matter instead of a scientific one, and that the path from philosophy to physics required a change in the physics community's attitude about the status of the foundations of quantum mechanics.
dc.description57 pages, accepted by Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508180
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508180
dc.identifierStudies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 37, 577-616, 2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.shpsb.2005.12.003
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/128772
dc.subjectHistory and Philosophy of Physics
dc.titlePhilosophy Enters the Optics Laboratory: Bell's Theorem and its First Experimental Tests (1965-1982)
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