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On Aerts' overlooked solution to the EPR paradox
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox was enunciated in 1935 and since
then it has made a lot of ink flow. Being a subtle result, it has also been
largely misunderstood. Indeed, if questioned about its solution, many
physicists will still affirm today that the paradox has been solved by the
Bell-test experimental results, which have shown that entangled states are
real. However, this remains a wrong view, as the validity of the EPR
ex-absurdum reasoning is independent from the Bell-test experiments, and the
possible structural shortcomings it evidenced cannot be eliminated. These were
correctly identified by the Belgian physicist Diederik Aerts, in the eighties
of last century, and are about the inability of the quantum formalism to
describe separate physical systems. The purpose of the present article is to
bring Aerts' overlooked result to the attention again of the physics'
community, explaining its content and implications
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