Loophole-free Bell inequality violations cannot disprove local realism
Loophole-free Bell inequality violations cannot disprove local realism
For almost three decades in the twentieth century, the physics community believed that John von Neumann had proved the impossibility of completing quantum mechanics by a local realist, hidden-variables theory. Although Grete Hermann had raised strong objections to von Neumann's proof, she was largely ignored. This situation lasted, until John …