TITLE:
Counterfactual Definiteness and Bell’s Inequality
AUTHORS:
Karl Hess, Hans De Raedt, Kristel Michielsen
KEYWORDS:
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Foundations of Probability, Bell Inequality
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Modern Physics,
Vol.7 No.13,
September
14,
2016
ABSTRACT: Counterfactual definiteness must be used as at least one of the postulates or axioms that are necessary to derive Bell-type inequalities. It is considered by many to be a postulate that not only is commensurate with classical physics (as for example Einstein’s special relativity), but also separates and distinguishes classical physics from quantum mechanics. It is the purpose of this paper to show that Bell’s choice of mathematical functions and independent variables implicitly includes counterfactual definiteness. However, his particular choice of variables reduces the generality of his theory, as well as the physics of all Bell-type theories, so significantly that no meaningful comparison of these theories with actual Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiments can be made.