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On the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
Critical reflections
„Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have each conducted groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated. Their results have cleared the way for new technology based upon quantum information.”
(The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Initially, I did not want to comment on the justifications for this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, because I have written so many times about entanglement, Bell's inequalities, and the incompleteness of quantum physics, that I thought it unnecessary to repeat my observations. But if we are talking about interpretations of the Nobel Prize justifications with which I disagree, then it is not superfluous, but very necessary to repeat other interpretations of quantum mechanics (QM) a thousand times. My criticisms are not of the facts of QM, of the great works of those who have just been awarded the prize, but of their explanation.
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György Kampis, Philosophy of Science
From my Diary, 07.11.2022.
A day or two ago I read philosophy of science before going to bed. Kampis's style is very interesting, if not easy to read, at least it is substantial and entertaining. However, his quotations are as unreliable as those of Peter Esterházy, who does not mark as a quotation what is an inaccurate recollection, while Kampis quotes, but sometimes wrongly or with dubious sources.
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