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

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2005-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508180v2

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 37, 577-616, 2006

Physics

History and Philosophy of Physics

57 pages, accepted by Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.shpsb.2005.12.003

This 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.

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