The inadequacy of effective incoherence interpretations of quantum theory, as demonstrated by analysis of EPR measurements

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-11

  Home, D ^a   Whitaker, M A B ^b  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPR EXPERIMENTS; EPR MEASUREMENTS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0010866155     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0375-9601(95)00917-5     Document Type: Article

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