TITLE:
Analysis of Wigner’s Set Theoretical Proof for Bell-Type Inequalities
AUTHORS:
Karl Hess, Hans De Raedt, Kristel Michielsen
KEYWORDS:
Bell Inequality, Local Realism, Nonlocality
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Modern Physics,
Vol.8 No.1,
January
10,
2017
ABSTRACT: We present a detailed analysis of the set theoretical proof of Wigner for Bell type inequalities with the following result. Wigner introduced a crucial assumption that is not related to Einstein’s local realism, but instead, without justification, to the existence of certain joint probability measures for possible and actual measurement outcomes of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) experiments. His conclusions about Einstein’s local realism are, therefore, not applicable to EPR experiments and the contradiction of the experimental outcomes to Wigner’s results has no bearing on the validity of Einstein’s local realism.