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The EPR paradox of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (1935) was presented as an argument for the need for additional variables in quantum theory to restore causality and locality to that theory. Such a proposition goes to the heart of the controversies about the proper interpretation of quantum mechanics, crystallized nicely in the long debate between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein, see Bohr (1949). Bell (1964) demonstrated the limitations on locality that any such hidden variable theory might have. Wigner (1970) simplified and made more specific the argument of Bell for a quantum mechanical system of two spin-1/2 particles. In the intervening years a huge literature concerning the conceptual difficulties with quantum mechanics has accumulated and we have no intention nor do we make any pretense of dealing with it here. See the collection of articles by Bell (1987) and, for example, the recent exposition of Bohm (1996), or the very recent articles by Goldstein (1998) for just some of the viewpoints held and flavors preferred within the physics community as concerns the proper physical interpretations of quantum mechanics.
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Gustafson, K. (1999). The Geometry of Quantum Probabilities. In: Atmanspacher, H., Amann, A., Müller-Herold, U. (eds) On Quanta, Mind and Matter. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 102. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4581-7_8
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