Roman Schnabel's article argues that the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox can be resolved by identifying a flaw in what the author calls the "EPR implication" and by using radioactive alpha decay as an example showing that predictability does not exclude genuine randomness. The paper is clearly written and addresses an important foundational question. In our view, however, its main conclusion does not follow. The article narrows the original EPR argument, attributes too much to Bell-inequality violations, and replaces the central EPR structure - which involves incompatible observables and locality-based reasoning - with a simpler case of correlated random events. The result is an interesting interpretive remark, but not, we think, a satisfactory scientific resolution of the EPR problem.Roman Schnabel's article argues that the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox can be resolved by identifying a flaw in what the author calls the "EPR implication" and by using radioactive alpha decay as an example showing that predictability does not exclude genuine randomness. The paper is clearly written and addresses an important foundational question. In our view, however, its main conclusion does not follow. The article narrows the original EPR argument, attributes too much to Bell-inequality violations, and replaces the central EPR structure - which involves incompatible observables and locality-based reasoning - with a simpler case of correlated random events. The result is an interesting interpretive remark, but not, we think, a satisfactory scientific resolution of the EPR problem.

quant-pharXiv:2604.13135Apr 15, 20260 citations

A Promising Beginning?

Karl Hess

Einstein’s Trojan horse, built for the fortress of quantum theory, is contained in a publication that he authored together with two young physicists, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, and is generally called the EPR paper (Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen, 1935). Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) presented a proof that the use of probability or chance in quantum theory has very unsettling consequences, because quantum theory teaches possible correlations of two distant events. How can single events that are random be correlated to other random single events? EPR suggests that there are only two possible explanations: • Quantum theory necessitates instantaneous inﬂuences, inﬂuences that propagate faster than the speed of light in vacuum. These inﬂuences of distant events on each other explain, then, the correlations of the two distant events. Einstein was convinced that his relativity theory had excluded the possibility of such inﬂuences, and if that was the explanation, then quantum mechanics was simply wrong.Einstein’s Trojan horse, built for the fortress of quantum theory, is contained in a publication that he authored together with two young physicists, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, and is generally called the EPR paper (Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen, 1935). Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) presented a proof that the use of probability or chance in quantum theory has very unsettling consequences, because quantum theory teaches possible correlations of two distant events. How can single events that are random be correlated to other random single events? EPR suggests that there are only two possible explanations: • Quantum theory necessitates instantaneous inﬂuences, inﬂuences that propagate faster than the speed of light in vacuum. These inﬂuences of distant events on each other explain, then, the correlations of the two distant events. Einstein was convinced that his relativity theory had excluded the possibility of such inﬂuences, and if that was the explanation, then quantum mechanics was simply wrong.

Oct 22, 20140 citations

On some frequent but controversial statements concerning the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations

O. Costa de Beauregard

Foundations of PhysicsAug 1, 198529 citations

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations

Virendra Singh

Springer eBooksJan 1, 19930 citations

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations in Deuteron Photodisintegration

Arthur Jabs

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations have so far been measured only between pairs of photons and between pairs of protons. It is proposed to measure these correlations between the proton and the neutron emerging from breakup of the deuteron induced by gamma rays near threshold. The feasibility of the experiment is discussed. Polarimeters with substantially higher overall efficiency than the presently reported value of $10^{-4}$ are needed in order to get enough events.Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations have so far been measured only between pairs of photons and between pairs of protons. It is proposed to measure these correlations between the proton and the neutron emerging from breakup of the deuteron induced by gamma rays near threshold. The feasibility of the experiment is discussed. Polarimeters with substantially higher overall efficiency than the presently reported value of $10^{-4}$ are needed in order to get enough events.

arXiv:quant-ph/9604027Apr 24, 19960 citations

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