Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
News and Views
Nature 460, 464-465 (23 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/460464a; Published online 22 July 2009
Open Innovation Challenges
-
Direct Molecular Detection of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
This Challenge is looking for novel approaches to protein and nucleic acid detection. This is an Id...
-
Single-cell Analysis Platform
This Challenge is looking for novel approaches to analyzing changes at a single-cell level. This is...
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Gastroenterologist
- South Atlanta Medical Clinic, PC (GI Group)
- Atlanta, GA, USA
Department Chair, Department of Human Science
- Georgetown University, Department of Human Science
- School of Nursing and Health Studies, 3700 Reservoir Rd. Washington, D.C. 20057
Quantum mechanics: Hidden context
Boris Blinov1
Abstract
The idea that physical phenomena might be described by a more downto-earth theory than quantum physics has met with resistance from many physicists. Indeed, it seems that nature is not as simple as we would like.
Quantum mechanics is weird, there is no doubt about that. Efforts to demystify this theory and reconcile it with the laws of classical physics have led to the development of theories of hidden local variables — the hypothetical parameters of a quantum system that govern the seemingly random outcomes of quantum measurements.
- Boris Blinov is in the Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Email: blinov@uw.edu
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS
These links to content published by NPG are automatically generated.
NEWS AND VIEWS
Quantum mechanics The truth about realityNature News and Views (15 Feb 2007)
Quantum mechanics: Bulletins delivered from the quantum worldNature News and Views (17 Apr 1986)
Quantum information Flight of the qubitNature News and Views (11 Mar 2004)
RESEARCH
State-independent experimental test of quantum contextualityNature Letters to Editor (23 Jul 2009)
Violation of a Bell-like inequality in single-neutron interferometryNature Letters to Editor (04 Sep 2003)
