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Is there something more in the real world than is contained in its description provided by modern physics? A decades-long dispute on this problem saw famous physicists affirmatively answering this question and equally famous physicists erecting or defending a bulwark against the so-called hidden variables. This bulwark had the form of a complicated mathematical theorem. It became useless when it was understood how one can circumvent it. Accordingly we are today free to work on the idea that the affirmative answer to the introductory question is the correct one.
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Selleri, F. (1990). Is Quantum Mechanics a Complete Theory?. In: van der Merwe, A. (eds) Quantum Paradoxes and Physical Reality. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1862-7_2
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