Abstract
Heidegger used to say that physicists do not think. This, of course, is vastly true but not completely so. Sometimes some physicists do think. The trouble is that their thoughts remain almost totally unnoticed, because they mostly do it privately and “on the sly” so to speak. At least, this was the case at CERN in the 1960s, when we both worked there, John Bell and I (he full time, I part time only).
Personal recollections are given of the author’s longstanding relationship with John Bell. Glimpses are offered on the nature of their agreement and disagreement concerning such philosophical issues as the notion of physical reality and what physics is actually about.
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d’Espagnat, B. (2002). My Interaction with John Bell. In: Quantum [Un]speakables. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05032-3_3
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