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So. So yesterday I gave a very speedy of I apologise, a too speedy introduction to the problem of compound systems.

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But we have a very tight budget of lectures.

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And I wanted not only to talk about explicitly about these composite systems and how you handle them,

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but also I think it's it's very valuable to discuss this classical Einstein,

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but also give Rose an experiment because it goes to the core of whether quantum mechanics is correct and what it really has to say about the universe.

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And that wasn't going to be time. So I couldn't spend two lectures doing what I did yesterday.

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But it's been compressed in order that we can talk about this experiment, which is an important,

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crucial application of this apparatus, of how we apply quantum mechanics to compound systems.

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So Einstein is famous for saying that God is sophisticated, but he does not play dice.

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He dislikes the the probabilistic aspect of quantum mechanics, not that he disliked or disapproved of the use of probability in physics.

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His his thesis work had been on kinetic theory and statistical physics.

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So he was quite comfortable with the idea that in classical physics you use statistical methods,

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probabilistic methods to do things like kinetic theory.

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But he understood that the reason you were doing you, in that case, you were doing probability theory because you had incomplete information.

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So when you lack information, it's obvious that you have to you you have to assign probabilities.

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The thing was worrying for him was working for him about quantum mechanics was that it asserted that even when you had complete information,

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which we know is in embodied in a set of a complete set of amplitudes, still the outcome of experiments is probabilistic and uncertain.

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And he felt that this was this was wrong because and the relation to God there, I guess,

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is that the omniscient God would not have the future uncertain, would know what the future was.

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So God must know something that we don't know. We have we have an uncertain future because we are short of information.

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But the information must be there. We don't know.

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We just don't know the information. So there must be some variables, some some variables which encodes the information about what's going to happen,

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which if you knew them and at some future time in physics,

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perhaps you would know what these variables were, and then you would be able to predict exactly what was what was going to happen.

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And in 1935, Einstein with Podolsky and Rosen proposed this describe his thought experiment,

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which they argued demonstrated that there must, in fact, be these sorts of hidden variables.

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In in 1964,

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I guess it was John Bell analysed a similar experiment and showed that the predictions of

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quantum mechanics are actually incompatible with the existence of these hidden variables.

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And then in 1972, 20 years after Einstein's death, an experiment of this type was actually conducted.

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And the the measure and many, many since have been conducted.

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And these measurements vindicate the predictions of quantum mechanics and therefore prove that these hidden variables cannot exist.

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So that's what that's what the agenda is today to describe this.

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So what's the the experiment that Bel describes is this, which is there are various versions of this, but you think that the key idea is the same.

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Suppose you have some nucleus which is going to be unstable and it's going to commit

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a positron in this direction when it does emit and an electron in this direction.

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And Alice sits over here and measures the spin.

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She measures the spin of the components of spin of this electron as it comes by in a direction of her choice.

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We will call it a four Alice and Bob sits over here and he measures the spin in the direction of his choice.

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The component of spin in the direction of his choice, which of course we will call B.

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So let's imagine Alice acts first. Sorry.

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And the idea is that the we know from nuclear physics that both before and after the decay, the spin on this nucleus is zero.

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We know, of course, that electrons and positrons are gyros they carry.

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They are spinning particles. They carry angular momentum because the angular momentum change of the nucleus is zero.

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It must be that by conservation van momentum. The spin of this is oppositely directed to the.

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The spin of that so that the angular inventor of the electron plus the positron is zero.

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So supposing Alice measures the spin first and Alice gets that a dot, as it turns out to be, plus a half.

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So she finds that the component is spin along. Her chosen vector A is s.

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What she then says to herself is this If Bob measures along a heap,

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if Bob chooses to put B equal two way, then he's guaranteed to find the answer minus half.

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Right, because if he measures with B along B,

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the components of the spin along b a vector B which is close to the vector A he's not very likely to get it,

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plus the half he's most likely to get, minus a half, but I can't guarantee [INAUDIBLE] get that.

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[INAUDIBLE] get minus a half.

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Right. So the point of that is that that that kind of thought,

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that Alex's thought process makes it absolutely clear that Bob's measurements are going to be correlated with Alex's measurements.

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And what we want to do now is put that on a quantitative basis and ask, what does quantum mechanics have to say about this?

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Okay, so what we want to do is talk about the correlations between the measurements that beam the bob makes and the measurements that Alex makes.

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Given that Bob is going to choose vector's be at his discretion.

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So let's talk about the quantum mechanical predictions. So what we do is we choose which we're free to do.

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The z-axis has to be a long atlas's vector.

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We can do that without loss of generality.

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And we will find this is I'm about to write down a result that will emerge in the next couple of weeks from our work in angular momentum,

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maybe emerge next week from our work in angular momentum.

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But for now, I have to ask you to take on trust that because the electron plus the positron together have no angular momentum.

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It must be that that wave function can be written like this as E plus p minus minus, e minus, p plus.

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So that is to say that the states we know that we know that a spin, a half particle,

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again, this this all needs to be justified properly when we do angular momentum.

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But we anticipated these results once before, early in the course that a spin half particle has the complete set of states,

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which are the state in which we're guaranteed to get plus along some direction for the spin and minus along the direction for some spin.

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There are a complete set of states. So here are the complete set of states for the electron.

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Here is the complete set of states of the positron. And this says that there is a probability of a half.

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Right. This this one of root two is the amplitude.

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To find that the electron is plus in the Z direction and the and the positron is minus in that direction.

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And this is the this is and there's a similar amplitude with a minus sign for the opposite possibilities.

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So the origin of this expression will emerge shortly.

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I must ask you to take this on. Trust. So this is the state of the system, the composite system of the electron and the positron taken together.

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So we talked about the collapse of the wave function in these circumstances yesterday.

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Alice makes her measurement, she finds plus, which means that she collapses the wave function into this.

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So this is. This is before Alice. Makes a measurement.

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After Alice has made her a measurement and found.

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Plus we have that ASI is simply E plus p minus, which is to say that there is unit amplitude that Bob will find minus if he measures along the z axis.

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In other words, if he chooses B to be the Z axis, which we've established is which we've chosen to be the same direction that Alyce chose.

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So that's consistent with what Alice said. What happens if he takes to be some other direction?

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Well, what we need to do is express some of the directions, but is so we need to write the cat.

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So we would like to calculate the amplitude. Well, the probability that if that when B uses some other direction, he finds it to be positive.

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He finds that S of his positron is along that direction, has plus a half along that direction.

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So in order to do that, I have to ask you to take something on trust that we will derive.

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But we've seen before, which is that this thing is equal to sine theta upon to e to the i phi upon to of positron.

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Down plus costs.

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These are upon to each of the minus I find on to for the positron plus.

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So what does that say? That says the the the state of having of of being certain to give you a half along the

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vector B for the positron is given by this amplitude that's just some complex number.

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Times the amplitude times the state where you will definitely get minus a half on the z axis,

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plus this amplitude times the state in which you're guaranteed to get plus a half

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on the z axis for the positron and Theta and Phi are the polar angles of B,

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right? B is the unit vector. So it is defined by a couple of angles.

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And the feature in PHI they give you the orientation of B with respect to the

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Z axis and the and here we using the complete set of states along the z-axis.

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So that's a result we will derive. But I'm asking you to take it on trust for now.

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So what is the probability that Bob measures place on B?

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The answer is that we it's according to the dogma of the theory.

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It's this because the state of the system, the state of the positron after Alice is made, his measurement, her measurement is definitely this.

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So this is that's that's how it works. The apparatus.

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So basically we flip this around, we take the emission that joint of this thing, bang it into minus.

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And guess what? We get the complex conjugate of this coming out.

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Oops, that science is wrong to e to the minus i fi and I've written on to and I've written the probability,

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which means I need to do a mod square to a mod square.

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This factor goes away and we're looking at sine squared.

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These are on to the it follows straight away.

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You could also calculated that the probability that Bob finds minus on B is one minus.

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The probability he finds plus on b is equal to cos squared theta upon to.

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So that's that puts precisely on a quantitative basis what Alice said.

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Alice said that if, if, if Bob chooses a vector B which is very similar to my AA, which is the case when theatre equals nought, then he's guaranteed.

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Well, if he's identical, he's guaranteed to find minus because this becomes this becomes this becomes one and that becomes nought.

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And if he chooses a vector B, which is similar to my vector array,

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he's not it's not guaranteed that [INAUDIBLE] get minus, but he has only a small probability of getting plus.

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And that's because theta will be small and in his probabilities looking like science with these two.

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So what Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen said.

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Well, the question is, why is the result that Bob gets somehow dependent on the measurements that Alice gets?

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And in particular, it looks like the result of Bob's measurement depends on which direction Alice chose,

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because this this angle feature is the angle between Bob's vector and Alice's vector.

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And we can imagine that, Alice. Let's imagine that Alice goes first and chooses a direction.

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Apparently, Bob's the probability of Bob's out of outcomes depends on thesis, therefore depends on analysis choices.

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But supposing these this positron an electron is sent out at relativistic speed.

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Perfectly plausible that they are then Alice and Bob.

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Well, Alice makes a measurement and Bob can make a measurement in the rest frame of the nucleus is essentially the same time.

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And if Bob acts that quickly, then there is no time for a light signal from Alice to rip to reach Bob.

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Setting out after Alice has made her measurement. So Bob definitely makes his measurement incomplete,

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and it has to make his measurement in complete ignorance of what choices Alice may or may not have made.

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And indeed, if in this relativistic case, it's easy to to see that who acts first?

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Different observers. Observers moving at different speeds with respect to the to the nucleus.

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And Alice and Bob will disagree about who acts first. The whole question of who acts first is neither here nor it clearly can't affect

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the physics because it's an observer dependent statement according to relativity.

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So. How so? So. So. So.

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How is it that the result of Bob's measurements depend on Alice's choices?

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When it's not logically possible for a signal to go from here to there in order to effect it.

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Well, Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen said what it must be is that actually the result of Alex's measurement is preordained.

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We don't know what the what the result is going to be, but that's because we're pig ignorant.

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But God knows it's it's foreordained because the the result is encoded somehow in the state of the

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electron not written on the board because we're using this clapped out quantum mechanical rubbish.

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And similarly, inside the positron, there's also this magic information, this DNA,

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this whatever, which which foreordained, the result of Bob's measurements.

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And then everything is okay. That was their interpretation of this of this problem.

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So now let's talk about Bell's inequality. So that was the state of affairs for, I guess, 30 years, right?

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1935 until 1964. So John Bell said, okay, so let's let's calculate something.

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Let Sigma Ray be the result of Alex's measurement.

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Oops. And it's obviously going to be plus or minus a half.

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Right. What whatever number she comes up with is going to be plus either plus a half or minus a half.

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And simply and similarly, sigma B being plus or minus a half is a result of Bob's measurement.

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And let's calculate the expectation value of Sigma A, Sigma B.

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So there are four cases to consider because they can both measure plus a half.

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They can both measure minus a half one can measure plus one half. My mother minus half, minus a half.

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And that is two different ways. So so this thing is going to be there are four possible values that sorry,

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Sigma Theta Times Sigma B can be either could be either plus or minus a quarter.

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And the possibilities to consider are the probability that Alice gets plus at times the probability that Bob gets plus,

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given that Alice gets plus plus the probability that Alice gets a plus and Bob gets sorry,

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A's gets minus and Bob gets minus the probability that Bob gets minus given that Alice has got minus, right?

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So in both these cases in both these cases, that product is going to be plus, right?

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Because in this case, this is going to be plus a half and that's going to be plus a half.

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In this case, Alice Sigma is going to be minus a half and Sigma basically minus half.

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The part is going to be plus a half. And then we have some minus cases,

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which is the probability that Alice gets plus say and Bob gets minus given the delta got plus and then

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we have minus the probability that Alice gets minus and Bob gets plus given that Alice got minus.

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Okay, we have to make Bob's probabilities, his conditional analysis, because we've seen that they're correlated.

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We can argue that the probability that for ALS get plus is the probability for Alice to get minus, namely it's a half.

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We don't. When Alice makes her measurement, we don't know a blind thing, so both possibilities are equally likely.

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So that must be the that must be what these probabilities are for Alice.

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And we've just worked out what the probability we just worked out what the probability for Bob to get plus was.

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You know, we've worked out these probabilities so we know that the probability for for Bob to get.

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Plus given that Alice got plus we found that that was sine squared thetr on to right.

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So that's science with these are on two by symmetry you could work it out but by symmetry this will be science with these are upon to right.

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Because if Alice has got minus we know that Bob is jolly unlikely to get minus if he chooses if he chooses an angle,

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a vector which is close to a and we figure these that's this one here.

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We've already shown that the probability is for Bob to get for Bob to get minus

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given the date has got plus we've already shown is cos squared feature on two.

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So both of these are going to be cost squared.

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These are upon two and both of those are going to be sign squared.

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These are onto which means that sigma sigma be expectation value is a quarter of sign squared thetr on Trump's theta onto.

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Twice over because we get two times like that minus twice cos squared three to respond to o times a half.

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Sorry, sorry, sorry. So here's a half and here's a half from the probabilities of A's.

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So those twos are not really there. And what is this cost squared minus science squared is cost twice the angle.

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So this is minus a quarter of costs theatre.

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And what is cost theatre? Cost theatre is actually a B, it's the angle between A and B, so this is minus a quarter of a dot B,

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so that's what quantum mechanics predicts is the expectation value of the product of these two measurements.

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So now what Bell did was calculate what this would be in a hidden variable theory.

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So draw a line. Now we're into another conceptual framework.

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What we're going to say is that so there is some function.

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Sigma e which will depend on.

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So what's this? This is this thing. Here is the value that you will find for the spin.

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The component is the spin of the electron along the vector a.

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We think this is a random variable because we don't know the values taken by the hidden.

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This is a set of hidden variables. This is a an end vector with components which are the hidden variables that we don't know.

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But Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen claim must exist to make the outcome of these experiments causal.

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So. So this is not a probabilistic quantity.

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This is something this is either a half or it's minus a half, right?

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Depending on the values that these variables hidden from us about which we do not know.

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And of course, on the direction in which you measure the component of spin.

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All right. So this is equal to plus or minus a half in a causal way.

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And similarly, there must be sigma p.

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This is the positrons. This is the positron spin that's also going to be plus or minus a half, depending causally on these things.

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We don't know what this function is. We don't know what these variables are.

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We don't know how many of these variables there are or anything but what we do.

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But we will do know by conservation triangle momentum that is minus sigma electron at V and B,

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because we know that the the positron spin is oppositely directed to the electron spin by conservation of angle mentum.

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So if you get plus a half here, you are certain to get minus a half here.

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So this is this equality is conservation.

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Of angular momentum. So what we do now is evaluate the expectation value which quantum mechanics told us.

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So we do sigma three depending on a times sigma p, depending on p expectation value.

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We write this out as in classical probability theory.

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Now, what's that going to be?

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Well, this expectation value means averaged over all possible values of the hidden variables, the things that we don't know.

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Right. So the reason that the outcome that this thing seems uncertain to us is because

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this thing is unknown to us and we therefore think of this as a random variable.

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So what was this expectation going to be? It's going to be an integral over the components of V.

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We have to sum of all possible values of what we don't know. Times.

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Sum. Probability density. But we don't know.

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Times Sigma e of V comma a.

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So basically we just we just take an average of this product which is completely determined by V and then but we take an average

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with this appropriate way over all the possible values of V to get the experimental expectation value standard probability theory.

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The next thing that we do is we replace this by the corresponding sigma e using that neg that, that switch of sine business.

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So we argue that this is minus the integral d to the envy row of sigma e three comma a sigma e v

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comma b So anything that's changed here is we've acquired a minus sign and that P has become an E.

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Now we say, okay, now let's imagine that we make this measurement with some other vector.

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Right? Supposing we now calculate the same expectation value between A and the vector C, just some other vector.

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And then we have the expectation value of sigma e a sigma p b minus.

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That's an next. That's a complete expectation value minus the expectation value of sigma e a sigma p c some vector,

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some other vector C And what's that going to be according to this apparatus?

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It's going to be it's going to be minus the integral D to the end the row depending on v open a bracket.

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No. Sigma e of v comma a will be a common factor.

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And then we will have sigma e of v comma b minus sigma e of v, comma c right.

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Because the right hand sides are both going to have this factor because we've taken the expectation value using sigma of a sigma, even in both cases.

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And what will differ in the two cases is that term in the back.

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So one time it'll be on, one time it'll be C.

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So that's what we get now build as something slightly nifty.

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He makes the observation that well,

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but he knows that sigma sigma squared V comma B is a quarter because he knows that this number is either plus or minus a half,

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depending on the values taken by V and B, the square of this number is guaranteed to be a quarter.

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So we can we can say we can insert into here, we can insert a four sigma squared e a v comma B without any harm, right?

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Because we just inserting a one. So he says that this expectation value this commodity, I'm going to write it out again.

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This expectation value on the left is minus the integral d to the end v rho sigma e of v comma a bit of

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write down for sigma squared e v comma b brackets sigma e v comma b minus sigma e v comma c very helpful.

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I'm sure what we now do is we take we break this sigma squared into sigma and sigma and we take one of the sigma is inside here.

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When one of these signals comes in here, we get a sigma squared again, which is a quarter times four is one.

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So we get a one appearing here and then we then of course, this sigma, the sigma that I brought in appears there as well.

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So the next line is this is equal to minus D,

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each of the N.V. rho sigma re of v comma a sigma e of v comma b brackets one minus four times sigma re of what we carried this one in V,

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comma B and we've already got one there, which is a sigma of V, comma C close brackets, close brackets.

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So this is what that expectation value what the top is, it's this.

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So why spell done this. What we now argue is that this bracket so so this product of things here is going to be either plus or minus a quarter, right?

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Because all of these things, they're causal functions and that they are either equal to plus a half or they're equal to minus.

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This product is equal to either plus a half a quarter or minus a quarter.

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We don't know. But whatever happens, so this bracket is either equal to zero or something positive.

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It has the brackets equal to two or nothing. Right.

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So what we really need is that this bracket is is greater than or equal to zero.

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It's not negative. This thing in the front here is is a fluctuating quantity.

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It's equal to plus or minus a quarter. So what we can argue now is let's take the modulus of both sides.

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The modulus of the left side is whatever it is,

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the modulus of the right side just means we drop this and we can argue that this integral this integral is going to be

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smaller than the actual integral here is going to be smaller than what we would get if we replace this with plus a quarter,

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because sometimes that is minus a quarter and we'll be taking away from the

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integral given that this thing here is never this thing here is never negative,

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there's no way that we can never get a positive result, a positive contribution to the integral when this is negative.

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So if we if we assume that this is always positive, we're going to overestimate this integral.

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So let me write that down. We will overestimate, overestimate, integral if we replace.

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Sigma e v com a sigma a v comma b by plus a quarter,

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because sometimes it's minus a quarter and that minus sign is never cancelled by any minus sign over here.

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So then I can argue that the modulus of the left side, which I'm fortunate enough to write out again.

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That's p sorry. Sigma e of a sigma p of C the modulus.

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That's an expectation value. Now in your modulus sine is less than or equal to because I'm going to write down something which is which is too large.

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I've deliberately made it too big of the integral rho that is been.

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That factor has been replaced by a quarter. This quarter can be taken outside and then we're staring at one minus four sigma.

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This is of the comma B sigma, e of the comma.

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See, now we make the observation of the integral this.

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So we break this integral into two parts. It's this stuff times one, but that integrates up to one because this is the probability density.

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And the probability density has to be structured so that if you if you integrate probability density time overall all parameter space, you get one.

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So this and this make a quarter.

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So this is this, this thing I'm going to write down what is equal to which is it's equal to one from the court excuse me.

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It's equal to quarter brackets of one from here then.

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Now let's consider this onto this stuff here.

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This on to this stuff here is roughly speaking where we came into this that that this times this was the expectation value of of

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sigma on sigma and this minus sign we can soak up by changing that back into a P that's retracing logic that we did up there.

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So this becomes one plus four times the expectation value of sigma e b sigma P of C expectation

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value where the V has disappeared from here because we've done an expectation value operation,

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we've we've averaged away all the V dependence in the proper way.

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So we have this is Bell's inequality that we have here.

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Now it's a statement about expectation values associated with the two particles and three possible vectors A, B and C.

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So the next thing to do is to ask all the predictions we have perfectly.

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We've calculated the predictions of quantum mechanics for these expectation values.

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We've already done that. So the question to ask now is all the predictions of quantum mechanics consistent with this inequality.

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I guess we need to be able to see everything simultaneously. And I've I've not held that right.

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So let's, let's write the let's write down here let's find the predictions of quantum mechanics.

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Okay? This is the crucial thing.

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The prediction of quantum mechanics is that this product, which is the other calculation for reasons which if you stare hard at it,

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you'll realise that there's a notational issue, there's a reason for this.

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This in the in the hidden variable calculation is called sigma e sigma p because remember Bob is measuring the positron,

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Alice is measuring the electron.

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So this is the this is the this is actually the same physical quantity that we've calculated down there and it's equal to minus a quarter of a dot B,

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so we can go straight back. So now we put in Sigma E a sigma e p the expectation value is minus a quarter, a dot B, which is from quantum mechanics.

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What does that do? Well, let's let's check out the left hand side.

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What does the left hand side look like? It's going to be the modulus of a quarter a dot c well.

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My minus eight dot B, right?

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So the overall minus sign gets lost, but it's going to be the modulus of this thing here.

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That's the left hand side. What is the right hand side going to be?

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It's going to be a quarter of one minus a dot B.

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Sorry, I don't see. So now we need to ask ourselves, is it true that this right hand side is bigger than this left hand side?

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And in this matter, we can choose A, B and C exactly as we will.

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Right. Because Bella shown the for any vectors, A, B and C, his inequality has to has to hold if there are hidden variables there.

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There's so far no restriction on A, B and C that any three vectors.

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So and if the quantum mechanical results violate bell's inequality for any vectors A,

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B and C, then quantum mechanics will be inconsistent with these hidden variables.

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So at this point, we do a choice. We choose A dot, B equals nought, and we choose C is equal to is equal to a C cost of CI plus B sign up CI.

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So what are we doing? We're simply of some angle.

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We're just choosing A and B to B orthogonal vectors and we're choosing C to be a vector that lies between A and B,

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and we've got ourselves a parameter of CI which allows us to move C from pointing along A to pointing along B in a continuous way.

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So with so just concretely,

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the picture is here is A we choosing age B this way we're choosing B to be that way and we're choosing C to be like that somewhere in the plane,

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stuff it in. And what do we get? We find that the left hand side is the modulus of a quarter a dot c is is a dot C is

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cost of CI a dot b is not and the right hand side is a quarter of one minus sign of CI.

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Plop these up. And what do you find?

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Sorry. Can we change these back to can we change that to sign up size.

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Because my diagram will look better if I do cos of ci.

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Sign up ci. Cos of CI.

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Right. Okay. So obviously there's nothing in that.

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It's just a change in in the figure two unfortunately.

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Right. Then what do we get?

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We find that the right hand side looks like when upside is small, the right hand side is looking like CI squared on eight or something.

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Anyway, it's rising quadratic, Lee, and it goes to one.

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This is PI by two. Meanwhile, the left side is is basically a sign curve.

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So we know what that looks like. It looks like this. So this is the left hand side.

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This is the right hand side. And Ballard has shown that the left hand side is smaller than the right hand side.

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So for four, for only two values, smaller than or equal to the.

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The quantum mechanical results are consistent with Bell's inequality for only upsized nought and upsized pi by two.

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The quantum mechanical results violate this inequality for all values.

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So basically so we conclude QM is inconsistent.

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With these hidden variables. Once you've got a nice,

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clean statement of this sort that there's the quantum mechanics is inconsistent

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with something which EPR reasoned was should be the case was very you know,

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the indications were that it was the case. You clearly the right thing to do is to go out and make a measurement and allow

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nature to decide for you whether quantum mechanics is right or hidden variables.

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Right. So in 1972, this was first done using not an electron and positron pair, but using pairs of photons.

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That's usually how this is done. The analysis is slightly more complicated if you use photons than if you use spin half particles.

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So we followed barely using spin off particles. But basically many of these experiments have now been conducted.

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And the experiments vindicate the experiment, vindicate the quantum mechanical predictions with a level of precision that you you know,

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the it's clear that the the experimental results are inconsistent with with with hidden variables.

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So the experimental results and that's from 1972 onwards, there have been many always refined experiments are consistent.

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With QM and inconsistent.

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With hidden variables. So that means that quantum mechanics is not going to be replaced by a hidden variable theory at some time in the future.

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Because you cannot construct a, you know,

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hidden variable theory along these lines is not going to be consistent with experiments are already conducted,

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so there's no point speculating about it. So to come back now to Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen,

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what is wrong with the arguments which indicate that somehow these measurements knew about a measurement?

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I think a lot of the. Well.

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Sorry. So the things that you should take away from this are first that when you measure something, you do two things.

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You disturb the system and you gain information about the system.

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So when Alice when Alice measured that electron and found it plus a half for the spin in her direction,

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a she disturbed the electron, but she didn't disturb the positron because the positron was somewhere else and there wasn't.

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The positron couldn't possibly be disturbed by anything down to the electron until there

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had been time for light signal to go from her operations to wherever the positron was.

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So she definitely doesn't disturb the positron, but she does disturb the electron.

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Therefore, she disturbs. She changes the state, she physically changes the state of the electron positron system.

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And that's why she's changed. She's collapsed the wave function from that linear combination to this here.

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But she has gained information about B because of the correlation that existed

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in the original in the original set up between her electron and the positron.

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By knowing by having discovered what was the state of affairs with the electron,

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she she was able to make some quite strong predictions about what B might find, what Bob might find on measuring the positron.

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This is this experiment emphasises a theme is quite common and is quite recurrent

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in quantum mechanical calculations and it's very important to think holistically.

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To do this problem, you have to think about the electron positron system.

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It's no good thinking.

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Oh, I can do with electron all I can deal with a positron both together have to be considered because of these correlations in the system.

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The a lot of the confusion that I think Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen had, and that is in many treatments of this,

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of this experiment arises from slipping into the error of thinking that because Alice has found

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a plus a half for the component of spin on her vector a that the spin is pointing a long way.

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As we shall see, a spin off particle has a always plus a half of spin in the directions of all three coordinate axes.

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When you've made a measurement of the Z component, you can know that the answer.

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You can know that it's it has a positive value.

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Four Sigma Z. But you don't know this.

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But but you don't you don't know what the values of sigma x and Sigma Y are, but you know that they have you don't know the values,

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but you know that they do have values which are comparable to that of Sigma Z.

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So what you should physically think of is that Alice is determined that the spin of her electron points in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Well, in the hemisphere that has her vector a for its pole.

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She does not know. It's pointing that it's aligned with a she only knows it's in the northern hemisphere of that.

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So if when Bob makes his measurement and then she can say, aha.

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So I now and she then knows for certain that the positron has its spin in the southern hemisphere of her vector a.

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Right. Because but she does not know where it points there because she doesn't know where her electron points in her hemisphere.

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She doesn't know where the positron points in its hemisphere.

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She only knows now all she's learned is which hemisphere that the positron is pointing in.

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So she can exclude, as quantum mechanics says, she can exclude only one result of B's measurement, namely, if B chooses to.

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If Bob chooses to measure along the vector A, then he will not find.

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Plus a half,

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because the top hemisphere has no point in common with the bottom hemisphere and at least knows that the positron is in the bottom hemisphere.

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So the I think the bottom line is that there isn't a logical problem if we just keep it focussed on the,

395
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on the idea that what is preordained is that is which hemisphere.

396
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The electron or the positron is is pointing in a not the direction.

397
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It's an error to think of these spins as pointing in a particular direction.

398
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It's a it's it's it's difficult to escape from the idea that a vector points in some in some direction.

399
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But then it's difficult when we do relativity to get used to the idea that time is relative and that two events that are simultaneously one

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event that happens before another event for in our frame of reference in somebody else's frame of reference reverses the order of the events.

401
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So the absoluteness of time is something it's very difficult to escape from.

402
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But we all grow up. We get used to it.

403
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Time isn't absolute and in and quantum mechanics is telling us that no vectors don't point in particular directions.

404
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Uh, they, there's a, in the case of spin of particles,

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the best you can say is that they have particular hemispheres in which to point and we'll as we go on.

406
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So the next item on the agenda is angular momentum.

407
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And that will enable us to to look at this a little bit more closely about under what circumstances it

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is the case that that that a a gyroscope or whatever seems to point pretty much in a definite direction.

409
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And we'll find in just the same way that things move only because they have ill defined energy.

410
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Things point in a definite direction, only because they have ill defined angular momentum and electrons do not have a well-defined Anglicanism.

411
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They have well-defined tangle, mentum, and that stops them pointing in any particular direction.

412
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Okay, hold on.