2:00 PM–5:22 PM, Friday, May 19, 2006
Wyatt - 109
Chair: James Evans, University of Puget Sound
4:54 PM–5:22 PM
Arthur Fine
(University of Washington)
Locality, separation and entanglement -- 1930s style. Starting with Solvay 1927, we'll explore the background to the 1935 paper by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen: how it was composed, the actual argument and principles used, and how the paper was received by Schroedinger, and others. We'll also look at Bohr's response: the extent to which Bohr connects with what Einstein was after in EPR and the extent to which EPR marks a shift in Bohr's thinking about the quantum theory. ~Time permitting, we will contrast EPR with Bell's theorem.