Abstract
It is shown that a certain "criterion of physical reality" formulated in a recent article with the above title by A. Einstein, B. Podolsky and N. Rosen contains an essential ambiguity when it is applied to quantum phenomena. In this connection a viewpoint termed "complementarity" is explained from which quantum-mechanical description of physical phenomena would seem to fulfill, within its scope, all rational demands of completeness.
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AmbiguityQuantumTheoretical physicsComplementarity (molecular biology)EinsteinPhysicsScope (computer science)Physical systemCompleteness (order theory)Classical mechanicsQuantum mechanicsComputer scienceMathematicsMathematical analysis
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- 48
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- 696-702
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Nicole L. Bohr
(1935).
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete?.
Physical Review
, 48
(8)
, 696-702.
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.48.696
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- DOI
- 10.1103/physrev.48.696