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Last Work with Walter

Karl Hess

Published Oct 22, 2014• 0 citations
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Before our publication of (Hess and Philipp, 2004), my inaugural paper for the National Academy of Sciences, Walter and I organized a meeting at the Beckman Institute of the University of Illinois to present all of our ideas and to discuss them with the experts. The meeting was a disappointment for me, because not many of the scientists who had criticized us came. Tony was present and discussed his opposing views. I do not remember any other discussions that we had not heard before, and the presentations that Walter and I gaveweremathematically too complex. Our adversaries did not like what we said; only our friends did. Andrei Khrennikov and also Louis Marchildon were present and very supportive.

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10.1201/b16809-14

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Before our publication of (Hess and Philipp, 2004), my inaugural paper for the National Academy of Sciences, Walter and I organized a meeting at the Beckman Institute of the University of Illinois to present all of our ideas and to discuss them with the experts. The meeting was a disappointment for me, because not many of the scientists who had criticized us came. Tony was present and discussed his opposing views. I do not remember any other discussions that we had not heard before, and the presentations that Walter and I gaveweremathematically too complex. Our adversaries did not like what we said; only our friends did. Andrei Khrennikov and also Louis Marchildon were present and very supportive.
I was very enthusiastic about our findings and wanted to publish them in a prestigious journal. I knew that this was not going to be easy, because neither Walter nor I were known experts in this particular area of mathematical physics, and any referee who saw that we tried to refute Bell would probably have a negative reaction to it. This is why I called my friend Federico Capasso and asked him to help. I had known Federico since many years. He was one of the top researchers at Bell Laboratories and now professor of applied physics at Harvard. Federico and I had hadmany spirited discussions about research topics and had become very good friends. Federico’s research area is solid state physics. He is a great expert in the area of light detectors, including the photodetectors that are used in the EPRB experiments, and he is the “father” of the quantum cascade laser. He knew about EPRB experiments and the Bell theorem. He also knew that I would not be calling him if I was not convinced about having important results. After presenting my case, I asked Federicowhether hewould, as amember of the National Academy of Sciences, sponsor a paper for PNAS, the proceedings of this National Academy and a very prestigious journal. I was at that time not yet a member of the academy myself. Any member of the academy could communicate annually a small number of papers to PNAS, determine the referees, and be involved in the publication process in the role of a guest editor. If the referee reports were good, such a paper would be printed with very high probability. For academymembers, this was a wonderful way to publish their own research and also to sponsor deserving research of young scientists as well as research on somewhat risky but highly interesting topics.
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Jeder, der sich irgendwie mit Wellenphänomenen beschäftigt, wird bald die Erfahrung machen, daß er sich da auf ein sehr merkwürdiges Gelände begeben hat: Der feste Boden seiner Alltagserfahrungen entweicht ihm unter den Füßen, Ursache und Wirkung tanzen einen wilden Reigen, die Phänomene entgleiten seinen Händen, wo immer er sie zu fassen sucht. Selbst die Lichter der Wissenschaft, sonst untrügliche Wegweiser, flackern hier in eigentümlichem, irrem Zwielicht. Wenn wir irgend hoffen dürfen, aus dieser „Zaubersphäre“, in die wir uns jetzt wagen wollen, klaren Kopfes wieder herauszukommen, so kann dies nur geschehen, indem wir uns in ständiger Fühlungnahme mit der Beobachtung behutsam tastend vorwärtsbewegen.