Abstract This paper is a response to the EPR paper titled: "Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?", published in Physical Review in 1935. A quantum-mechanical (QM) measure function describes a distribution of local results, while each experimental measurement process produces one result as exact as allowed by a measuring apparatus calibrated to a non-local unit standard. Repeating experimental measurements produces a Gaussian distribution of measurement results. These QM and experimental measurement result distributions can be compared. To compare a QM measure function describing a distribution of eigenvectors to a distribution of repetitive experimental measurement results, it is necessary to determine, by calibration, the precision of the eigenvectors to the same standard as the experimental results, because each eigenvector evidences uncertainty relative to a standard. When the calibration process is recognized as formal as well as empirical, QM measure function and experimental measurement process results are unified.
This paper is a response to the EPR paper titled: "Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete?", published in Physical Review in 1935. A quantum-mechanical (QM) measurement function describes a distribution of local results and each empirical measurement process produces one result as exact as allowed by a measuring instrument calibrated to a non-local unit standard. Repeating these empirical measurements produces a bell shaped distribution of measurement results. Each of these distributions can be compared to the other. To precisely compare a QM measurement function describing a distribution of eigenvectors to a distribution of repetitive empirical measurement results, it is necessary to determine, by calibration, the precision of the eigenvectors to the same standard as the empirical results, because each eigenvector evidences uncertainty relative to a standard. When the calibration process is recognized as formal as well as empirical, QM measurement function results and metrology measurement process results are unified.