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EPR and Hidden Variables: The Debate About Spooky Action at a Distance

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The article in which Schrödinger introduced his famous thought experiment, and with it the concept of entanglement, did not come out of nowhere.

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    Often the EPR paradox is explained by the example of two electrons and their spin, but the original version due to Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen deals with two unspecified quantum particles and the measurement of their momenta.

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Jaeger, L. (2018). EPR and Hidden Variables: The Debate About Spooky Action at a Distance. In: The Second Quantum Revolution. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98824-5_23

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