The Second Mystery: Nonlocality

Jean Bricmont

Kurt Jacobs, Howard M. Wiseman

Nonlocality of the type first elucidated by Bell in 1964 is a difficult concept to explain to nonspecialists and undergraduates. We attempt to do so by showing how nonlocality can be used to solve a problem in which someone might find themselves as the result of a series of normal, even if somewhat unlikely, events. Our story is told in the style of a Sherlock Holmes mystery, and is based on Mermin’s formulation of the “paradoxical” illustration of quantum nonlocality discovered by Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger.

Benford Ms

Tony Sudbery

Euan Squires 1986 Bristol: Adam Hilger xi + 170 pp price £18.95 (£8.95 paperback) (IOP members' prices £15.15 and £7.15 respectively) ISBN 0 85274 565 6 Hdbk, 0 85274 566 4 Pbk This is one of the growing number of books on quantum mechanics with authors who do not pretend to be able to offer a full understanding of the subject. Euan Squires describes the conceptual framework of this most successful yet most mysterious of theories, focusing attention on the problems of reality, measurement and the role of consciousness, and nonlocality.

Detlef Dürr, Stefan Teufel

Bruce Rosenblum, Fred Kuttner

Abstract Consciousness and the quantum enigma are not just two mysteries; they are the two mysteries: the first, the physical demonstration of the quantum enigma, faces us with a fundamental mystery of the objective world “out there;” the second, conscious awareness, faces us with the fundamental mystery of the subjective, mental world “in here.” Quantum mechanics appears to connect the two.